Robert E. Bonner is professor of history and the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood; The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War; and Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (Princeton).

"I and probably many of you have read lots of books about the Civil War, so I want to praise one that opened for me an entirely new window. Robert Bonner’s The First Pariah State: How Proslavery Confederacy Menaced the World . . . shows how the 1861 assertion by Alexander Stephens that slavery was 'the cornerstone' of the Confederacy became a soundbite heard round much of the world."---Marvin Olasky, Discovery Institute

Robert E. Bonner is professor of history and the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood; The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War; and Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (Princeton).

"I and probably many of you have read lots of books about the Civil War, so I want to praise one that opened for me an entirely new window. Robert Bonner’s The First Pariah State: How Proslavery Confederacy Menaced the World . . . shows how the 1861 assertion by Alexander Stephens that slavery was 'the cornerstone' of the Confederacy became a soundbite heard round much of the world."---Marvin Olasky, Discovery Institute

Robert E. Bonner is professor of history and the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood; The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War; and Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (Princeton).

"I and probably many of you have read lots of books about the Civil War, so I want to praise one that opened for me an entirely new window. Robert Bonner’s The First Pariah State: How Proslavery Confederacy Menaced the World . . . shows how the 1861 assertion by Alexander Stephens that slavery was 'the cornerstone' of the Confederacy became a soundbite heard round much of the world."---Marvin Olasky, Discovery Institute