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Review: I'm waiting for Turtledove to expand this series to World War II and beyond. So far, the only way he's done that is in the sci-fi based "Worldwar" series--I'd prefer an "us Earthlings only" approach. This book gives those who are far too used to Amerca as a superpower an opportunity to realize that events leading up to World War I would have happened even had there been no Western Hemisphere. And I tend to wonder whether Custer was really all that obsessed with the Mormons. One thing I find disquieting, though--literate Afro-Confederates reading the socialist theories of Marx and Lincoln (? ) and seeing in it the potential for a race war. Especially since all through the Civil Rights 'Sixties, Klan publications were calling the drive for racial justice "the influence of godless communists". It's a bit depressing to think that the Red Tar Brush might be there for racists to apply to any move towards racial parity.
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