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Title: Extrapolating History
Review: One of the great logical fallacies is to reason from a particular premise to a universal conclusion. Much of this book is based on that logical fallacy. Yes some people were starving and some planters were not planting food but extrapolating to a universal conspiracy of the rich against the poor is illogical. A Peoples History of the Civil War is not balanced. It is an attempt to make everybody with any power look evil and it contorts history to accomplish its goal. If you want to see the US Civil War through a Marxist lens then read this book but there are better books to read about the Civil War that give a much more balanced view.
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