Title: It's time the real history of the GOP was public
Product review: This is the history you do not get in text books written by for and about Democrats. When I grew up we were taught that the Republicans in the Senate and House in the 1860s and 1870s that accomplished the freeing of the slaves and the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15 amendments that outlawed slavery, applied the bill of rights to the states and guaranteed the right to vote to the freed slaves were "radical" Republicans. I guess that made the Democrats of that era, who passed the Jim Crow laws, that formulated separate and unequal, that disenfranchised and disarmed the freed blacks so that they could be subjugated and lynched, mainstream. Michael Zak tells the true story of couragious Republicans who valued integrity over expediancy, and who placed their lives and safety at risk for a noble goal. He and his book are to be commended for telling us the story that mainstream academia would rather just ignore.
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