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Goodreads asked Gil Hahn:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Gil Hahn I became interested in the resources that the Federals and the Confederates had available to them at the start of the Civil War. That blossomed into a fuller exploration of what the nation was like -- what people thought about, and did in their daily lives. The ultimate question is why the secession movement exploded the way that it did.

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