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Ante-bellum

Edward Neill The Unwritten War. American Writers and the Civil War Daniel Aaron (Oxford £2.95) Who won the American Civil War? The South, obviously. It captured the imagination,......

Knocking On Woody

Benny Green Woody Allen and His Comedy Eric Lax (Elm Tree Books, £3.75) In one of Woody Allen's most notorious stage routines, he tells how he shot a moose, strapped it to his......