{"id":1637,"date":"2018-12-30T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overbrookpublishing.com\/BackStory\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2018-12-30T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T19:04:56","slug":"book-review-a-sacred-circle-the-dilemma-of-the-intellectual-in-the-old-south-1840-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/book-review-a-sacred-circle-the-dilemma-of-the-intellectual-in-the-old-south-1840-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in The Old South, 1840-1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/175949.A_Sacred_Circle\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s.gr-assets.com\/assets\/nophoto\/book\/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png?ssl=1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/175949.A_Sacred_Circle\">A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/288.Drew_Gilpin_Faust\">Drew Gilpin Faust<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2646297272\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I chose to read A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South 1840-1860 by Drew Gilpin Faust because I wanted to better understand the perspectives and collective world view that informed ante-bellum attitudes among its leading thinkers. A Sacred Circle is a thoroughly researched and carefully sourced book that proved more of an academic read for me because I made a lot of notes and often needed to refer back to earlier passages. Ultimately, I found the answers I wanted in this insightful book. Egregious though they were, the misguided genius of the Sacred Circle of five self-professed intellectuals that justified proslavery thought in the South, made sense only after having considered the well-developed arguments presented earlier in the book. I would recommend A Sacred Circle as an authoritative book on the topic of critical thought and culture in the ante-bellum South.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12333272-rosa-king\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 by Drew Gilpin Faust My rating: 4 of 5 stars I chose to read A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South 1840-1860 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/book-review-a-sacred-circle-the-dilemma-of-the-intellectual-in-the-old-south-1840-1860\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,178,150],"tags":[180,179],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","category-ante-bellum-south","category-book-reviews","tag-a-sacred-circle","tag-ante-bellum-south"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/plantation-scene.jpg?fit=948%2C532&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}