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Summary: This book documents EVERY claim with NORTHERN SOURCES!
Review: You owe it to yourself to read this book in spite, or perhaps because of the fantasy offered by Mike Gelfand. Unlike the transparent bigot who implies that trailer parks are somehow a Southern phenomenon and lacks the gonads to sign his "review" after admitting that he has never even read the book; Mr. Gelfand does in fact use a name at the end of his divergence from reality. He is to be commended for that. Buy it used and read it for yourself. You will quickly notice how much of the documentation is from northern newspapers of the time, from offical US governemnt documents, official correspondence of the US Army and the diaries of the Federal soldiers involved. Yes, there are some southern sources used and there are many more that could have been used. But the author's have made the two bold choices of using northern sources to provide the facts so assiduosly ignored by others and in using that tremendously controversial title guaranteed to attract the eye. Read for yourself; unless you'd rather continue to have your "opinions" dictated to you. If you think that the war had ANYTHING to do with slavery; answer this: "Why is it that the Gettysburg Address was made after two years of horrific, bloody war; the day after the bloodiest battle until that date; after the Confederates reached Pennsylvania; and only applied to the ceceded States and made NO interferences with Northern slaves; was delivered by the man whose own government's official histories show to be a dictator suspending the most basic human liberties of his own northern constituents with the first-ever secret police on the continent; ad infinitum? Did you know that Massachucetts was the first colony to give legal protection to slaveholding? Did you know that Virgina, the very heart of the Confederacy, was the colony and later state to REPEATEDLY attempt to outlaw slavery, but was prevented from so doing by the english Governor and later by the New England states? Did you know that had it not been for the Fourteenth Amendment New Jersey would have maintained lifetime slavery as legal for decades AFTER THE WAR? Did you know that racism has its roots in the northern states? Is it any surprise that it continues to be strongest there to this day? Read this book, check its references, and begin to learn the breadth and depth of the lies you have been taught as truth. If your prejudiced ideas are correct; you have nothing to fear. Who among you is man enough to read it? Perhaps the strongest indication that everyone should read this book comes from those who denigrate it. All but one do not address the very book they "review" at all, preferring instead to vent vile racist and cultural bigotry to prove their own genetic deficiencies. Only one detractor has made ANY attempt at explaining where this book misses the mark. And while though he misses the mark and makes arguements neither founded in fact nor in any way applicable to this book or anything it contains; even he says that we should all read it.
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Summary: The Truth Shall Stand Forever
Review: This book is wonderful. The Kennedy's do a masterful job of dispelling over a century's worth of washington/yankee lies. Growing up Southern, one begins to realize that the touchy-feely slavery swill does not hold water. The Kennedy's speak directly to this and illustrate the true issues of Southern Independence.
This book is a "must have" for any true patriot's library. The sooner we read this book and realize what was lost at Appomattox, the sooner we can start working to reclaim our birthright.
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