Product Description Get ready for a rousing rebel yell as bestselling author H.W. Crocker, III (Robert E. Lee on Leadership) charges through bunkers and battlefields in The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to the Civil War. Crocker busts myths and shatters stereotypes as he profiles eminent--and colorful--military generals while taking readers through chapters such as "The Civil War in Sixteen Battles You Should Know" and culminating in the most politically incorrect chapter of all, "What if the South Had Won." Revealing little-known truths, like why Robert E. Lee had a higher regard for African Americans than Lincoln did, this is the "P.I.G." that every Civil War buff and Southern partisan will want on their bookshelf, in their classroom, and under their Christmas tree.
STATES RIGHTS November 23, 2008 The PC guide to the Civil War rightly stresses the war was unnecessary as all the Southern states wanted was their right to conduct international commerence without the interference of the tax and spend Northern elite.
Book Review November 23, 2008 This Book "The Politically Incorrect Guide" to the Civil War is Fantastic. One of the Best I have Read on the Civil War. Informative & Funny, and I shall Look at the South in a Differant Way. Makes one Wonder if We All wouldnt have been better off if the South had Won. Loved It. Marian. C
two sides to every story November 23, 2008 In War ..... the victor gets to write history. After nearly 150 years, we get a little different look.
You've got to read this! November 22, 2008 The Politically Incorrect Guide to the War of Yankee Aggression is a well written, eye opening and enjoyable read.
Just Drop the Word "Politically"... November 21, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
from the title, and you have a much more honest representation of what this book actually is.
Now, to let y'all know about my "street cred": I minored in U.S. History. I took several classes that covered the American Civil War, and one that was *just* about the Civil War. My professor was a brilliant man, a PhD in military history who went to West Point and spent 20 years in the Army.
Every issue in the Civil War came back to slavery. Every one.
Yes, the North had slaves for a long time. A great place to start reading is Morgan's "American Slavery, American Freedom"- it tells how slavery started as an American institution before it morphed into a Southern one.
Yes, the North had plenty of racists. Just the same, though, thank God the North won. The North was, by and large, racist and also fighting on the right side.
By comparison, let's look at WWII. After the Americans liberated the Death Camps and the Allies exposed the Nazis for what they really were in all their horror, the U.S. government had to rename the "Morganthau Plan" to the "Marshall Plan". Why? Because "Morganthau" was "too Jewish" a name. The U.S. was, by and large, too anti-Semetic to accept the original name of the plan.
Does that mean that the U.S. should have fought for the Axis instead of the Allies? Of course not! Again, racist, but at least fighting on the right side.
The most outlandish thing in this book is the idea that the South would have peacefully ended slavery on its own. Sure. Read about Popular Sovereignty and it's Southern opposition, and more specifically, about Bleeding Kansas, Beecher's Bibles, and the Missouri Ruffians and get back to me.
The South would have never, ever ended slavery on its own. If the study of (correct) history tells us anything, it's that the oppressors never go quietly.
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