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Title: Second Rate Historian Tries to Re-Write the Civil War
Review: An economic interpretation of the Civil War and anti-Lincoln that is the main points of this book and why this book is off, way off. Hummel's writng is not too bad and the bibliographic essays at the end of each chapter are interesting. However, his history is off as is most revisionist history. The causes of the Civil War were not economic and the results of the Civil War is not big government. Hummels writing seems to be a sort of justification for his personal political views. One is much better off reading Foote, Fields, or Catton
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