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Title: An embarrassment to the modern south!
Review: As a civil war reenactor, and passionate historian, I find this book to be morally and historically offensive! Most of the book contains half-truths and distortions while providing very few historical facts. One thing they left out was the Mississippi Draft of Secession which contains, "we thoroughly identify our cause with the institution of slavery!" While I agree that the majority of Southerners fought for home and hearth, the fact remains that Southern politics was controlled by a SMALL minority of elite plantation owners concerned only about their own economic self-interests. Also, parts of it are outright racist. In short, I would not recommend this book to any sensible person. The Kennedy brothers nearly make me ashamed to call myself a Southerner! Nearly!
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