The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

By M. James Fox

Think you know the Civil War?
You don't know the full story until you read The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War

Bestselling author and former Conservative Book Club editor H. W. Crocker III offers a quick and lively study of America's own Iliad--the Civil War--in this provocative and entertaining addition to The Politically Incorrect GuideTM series.

In The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to the Civil War Crocker profiles eminent--and colorful--military generals including the noble Lee, the controversial Sherman, the indefatigable Grant, the legendary Stonewall Jackson, and the notorious Nathan Bedford Forrest. He also includes thought-provoking chapters such as "The Civil War in Sixteen Battles You Should Know" and the most devastatingly politically incorrect chapter of all, "What If the South Had Won?" Along the way, he reveals a huge number of little-known truths, including why Robert E. Lee had a higher regard for African Americans than Lincoln did; how, if there had been no Civil War, the South would have abolished slavery peaceably (as every other country in the Western Hemisphere did in the nineteenth century); and how the Confederate States of America might have helped the Allies win World War I sooner. Bet your history professor never told you:
* Leading Northern generals--like McClellan and Sherman--hated abolitionists
* Bombing people "back to the Stone Age" got its start with the Federal siege of Vicksburg
* General Sherman professed not to know which was "the greater evil" slavery or democracy
* Stonewall Jackson founded a Sunday school for slaves where he taught them how to read
* General James Longstreet fought the Battle of Sharpsburg in his carpet slippers

This is the Politically Incorrect GuideTM that every Civil War buff and Southern partisan--and everyone who is tired of liberal self-hatred that vilifies America's greatest heroes--must have on his bookshelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596985496
• ISBN13: 9781596985490
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Well Worth the Read

People educated in the "politically correct" schools, post-1960 are likely to be shocked, or at least surprised, and I don't doubt many will decry many facts described in this book as lies. The great thing about it is that they are not lies and if a truly objective historian digs into the matter they find overwhelming proof that this "version" of History is a LOT more accurate than the writings since the 1960s. But...

Informative and Entertaining

This book not only includes some fascinating historical information, it makes for entertaining reading as the author delves into the lives of several Union and Confederate generals to reveal a much different picture of the era and the conflict.

The Victors Write the History

Americans believe in their hearts that the history they learned in school was largely objective and untainted by any prejudice, but in reality "political correctness" has become the rallying cry of a religion no less intolerant than the Medieval Church that imprisoned Galileo for his beliefs. This book unmasks the fraud of the modern historical view of the "War of Northern Aggression". That the victors have indeed written...

Political Correctness be Damned

To the victor goes the spoils, and greatest of these is the right to compose the approved history. That history has been taught to generations of schoolchildren, and embraced by biased, completely indoctrinated historians and educators. Now, after 143 years, the facts regarding a government gone astray from the visions of the Founding Fathers, Taxation and Tariffs, Mr Lincoln's political objectives, and the South's decision...

The Story of the Civil War vividly written.

In his newest work, Harry Crocker makes history come alive. The Civil War has not often been taught well in schools, with the teaching model focused on dates, and not individuals. In "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War", as he did in his acclaimed book "Robert E. Lee on Leadership", Harry corrects this, making history entertaining, with humor and wonderful anecdotes. I cannot think of a better birthday or...