Posted by
wingnut on Sunday, October 04, 2009 8:00:00 PM
New Books:
Flawed Victory -- A New Perspective On The Civil War, William L. Barney, University Press Of America, 1980.
This is another book that does not just blindly accept the usual myths about The War concocted by Northern historians. Remember - the side that wins any war gets to rewrite it's history. The author discusses the total destruction of The South (1/3 of The USA population) economically and culturally. The literal "rape" of any leftover wealth as crops, farm animals, and equipment that was sent north by corrupt northern officials during "Reconstruction" days was deplorable. Barney says that, ". . .America's identity as a nation is more intimately related to that (1861-65, sic) war than to the revolution against the British, . . ." Later, "To restructure the Union required a stretching of The Constitution . . ." The Confederacy ran into the same clash between THEIR desire for State's rights and a need for the centralization of controls. The end result was a new FORM of government based on nationalism with supreme authority in Washington. The first Republic of The Founding Fathers actually collapsed in 1860. Abraham Lincoln ". . . marked a shift of power to The Presidency that raised for the first time the specters of unrestrained executive leadership and uncompromising nationalism that would prove mixed blessings in the twentieth century." All this is why I say to Glenn Beck that the destruction of our Constitution actually began HERE and NOT with the Progressives of the early 20th century. The "dual sovereignty" of State's Rights and Federal Government attempted by our Constitution was actually one of the HOLES in it from the beginning. See my article below "We Are Seeing The Holes In our Constitution" about our Supreme Court. With all these HOLES, it is nonsensical for anyone to knowledgeably say that "We need to get back to The Constitution!"
--Ray Curtis, Sunday October 4, 2009
see also The South Was Right, Kennedy & Kennedy 1994 for similar arguments
Grant And Sherman -- The Friendship That Won The Civil War, Charles Bracelen Flood, Harper Perrenial, 2005.
They first fought together at Shiloh and developed the final strategy to cut The South into thirds after Chattanooga in late '63. This book explores Grant and Sherman's early years as well as years shortly after The War. With battle maps in black and white, the book is about 400 pages and exists in both paperback and hardback. --RPC