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Title: NOT History, but Editorial
Review: Mr. Ward is listed on the book cover as a "contributing editor" and "columnist" for certain newspapers across the country. That is what this work represents. Mr. Ward's comments, and they can only be interpretted as such, speak of opinion with a touch of history added to support only his opinions. I will not repeat the comments already made about the half-truths and untruths of this "work". I have studied Forrest for the past 20 years and though I am a Southerner I have come to very different opinions than Mr. Ward. I just don't have the temerity to publish those opinions as facts. What bothers me most about this work, besides the historical untruths, are Mr. Ward's comments about Shelby Foote, a very recognized author and historian of the Memphis area. Were Mr. Foote alive to repute this comment, I believe his comment to Mr. Ward would be, "if you were any part of a man, I would slap your face and force you to resent it".
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