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Prologue

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: El Akkad, Omar. American War. Vintage Books, 2018.

• An unidentified narrator tells about his childhood hobby of collecting postcards.

• The postcards are stored in the bottom of an old oil drum in a toolshed.

• The narrator discloses that he is a historian of America's Second Civil War and a Southerner by birth.

• He arrived in "neutral territory at the age of six" (3), "a sun-bitten Georgia boy, a refugee" (4).

• His favorite postcards are taken in the 2030s and 2040s and show how America used to be.

• As a child, the narrator comes to Alaska and sees snow for the first time.

• The narrator is part of the "Miraculous Generation: those born in the years between the start of the Second American Civil War in 2074 and its end in 2095" (4).

• The narrator says that the war killed 11 million...

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