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Title: Not to be taken seriously
Review: The author writes above: "When I started writing The Southern Nation, I promised myself that it would be a unique kind of Southern book. The first goal was to send a message of hope to the Southern people. This message is that we no longer have to live as second-class citizens or as the subject of the rest of the country's jokes and criticisms any longer. My second goal was to write the one of most controversial books of the 21st Century. Early reviews tend to show that The Southern Nation succeeds on both counts."In other words, it's a shallow political tract from start to finish. Did the author really think he was adding something new to the history of the South by modelling his work on "The South Was Right," perhaps the silliest bit of fake history ever written about the Civil War and the South? All of these Lost Cause apologist rants have been so thoroughly discredited, for so long, it's a wonder someone can still get a book like this published.
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