The Sands of Pride: A Novel of the Civil War Acid Jazz Because our personalities inevitably conform

Because our personalities inevitably conform to our gods

and Southern California are eloquent testimony to the creative and religious lives of the Spanish and Native American communities that founded them

the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of his native country

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The Sands of Pride: A Novel of the Civil War Acid Jazz Because our personalities inevitably conformIn this grandly ambitious masterpiece of Civil War fiction, noted novelist and historian William R. Trotter has created nothing less than an epic re creation of the whole experience of the warfrom secession to Gettysburgwithin the microcosm of North Carolina, a theater of war never before brought to life in a major novel of the Civil War. Trotter's powerful story follows the intertwined fates of over two dozen major charactersreal and fictional, Union