Writing Is Hubris

Writing Is HubrisPart 1: “No man but a blockhead …”

The hubris of writing is the expectation that a complete stranger will be engaged by something that you have written.

If writing is an act of hubris, then writing about the American Civil War is an act of hubris raised to the umpteenth power.  I have read or heard somewhere that the number of books written about the Civil War is equal to or greater than the number of days that have passed since the Civil War.  With so many volumes and pages ...