
202. American Civil War: Gettysburg (Part 3)
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202. American Civil War: Gettysburg (Part 3) mentions Intruders in the Dust by William Faulkner with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
Not one of his best books, but probably his single most famous passage, and he's talking about the moment that generations of Southern boys looked ba…
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- Tom, Dominic and historian Adam Smith look at the most famous battle of the war and Abraham Lincoln’s 272 word address that became one of the best known speeches of all…
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“The excerpt discusses a famous passage from William Faulkner's 'Intruders in the Dust', reflecting on the moment during the Battle of Gettysburg.”
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