Unabridged Audiobook
The author seems to have the entirely laudable intent to excoriate those politically correct modern scholars who ignore what the Civil War era people actually said, did, and wrote in favor of their ideologically pure academic enthusiasms, particularly that of anachronistically judging the mid-nineteenth century actions by twenty-first century norms and standards. He sort of succeeds, but the book seems more like a bunch of parts than a whole. I suspect the author may be too much of a gentleman to give his targets the thoroughgoing reaming they deserve. Wonderful treatment of the accomplishments of the Union army, and in particular its role in emancipation.
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