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Title: Another right-wing screed
Review: This book is one of the most ahistorical reads around. Full of 'facts', but extremely ideologically biased when it comes to analysis. Democrats, Republicans, Whigs - even most abolitionists - were ALL racists. And yes, this extended into the 20th century.But the Republican and Democratic parties that exist today are not the same as those of the 19th or even middle 20th century. The racist white segregationist Southern Democrats and Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats in the 1950s and 1960s and ended up in the Republican Party.If you want to reinforce your infantile right-wing views on race and politics in this country, this book is for you.However, if you're interested in an objective discussion of the issue, there are plenty of other REAL historians to read. Check out Eric Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1866-1877" and Manning Marable's "Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006".
