(Book review) This is not an impartial review. The majority of the essays in Gary Gallagher’s “The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis” first appeared as columns that he regularly writes for this magazine, and that he began at my behest in 2009. If I liked them when they ran in the magazine, how could I not like them now? Throughout his career he has been committed to reaching out to a popular audience and making Civil War history accessible. His university classes were legendary for filling up, he leads battlefield tours, and he advocates for battlefield pre...