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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War (Politically Incorrect Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: H. W. Crocker Iii
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Pages: 370
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 1
ISBN: 1596985496
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7
EAN: 9781596985490
ASIN: 1596985496
Publication Date: October 21, 2008
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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.
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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
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.
 It's in Our Rebel Genes October 21, 2008
23 out of 36 found this review helpful
"The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to the Civil War" serves to further reinforce the fact that the "South's" patriotic, moral, rebellious, determined and unceasing efforts to maintain/restore the ideals of our nation's founding fathers throughout history were genetically bequeathed from centuries-old Scots-Irish ancestry and transcended a corrupt kingdom and a democratic republic turned dictatorial.
From a historical perspective, for Southerners, it's simply in our genes. More specifically, it's in our rebellious or "rebel" gene; An independent rebel gene that crossed the Atlantic in rebellion against a lack of freedom.
A rebel gene that fought a war against the British Crown, rebelling for our right to secede from that overpowering government.
A rebel gene that led the rebellious argument, as evidenced by "The Federalist Papers", against the formation of a union of states (United States) for fear of eventually returning to the overbearing demands of a federal power from which we fought to escape.
A rebel gene that reluctantly agreed to the formation of a union, but only after rebelling for the promulgation of a protective constitution that would guarantee that any federal power would be limited to essentially a few basic tasks: provide for a common defense, promote and facilitate commerce between the states, etc.
A rebel gene that rebelled against the gradual creep of the feared overbearing federal power of this "United States" government in violation of the Constitution.
A rebel gene that rebelled and fought a war against an overpowering United States central government that denied our states the inalienable right to secede from an overbearing government.
A rebel gene that lost a war for the restoration of the rights of our individual states; a war that, sadly, set the stage for the encroaching federal monarchy (royalty) under which we approach today.
A rebel gene that gets up, brushes itself off and continues incessantly today, rebelling against those same creeping encroachments feared by our founding fathers that threaten freedom.
A rebel gene that despite setbacks has been our nation's salvation to date.
A rebel gene, the urge from which emanates the patriotic, moral and appropriate rebelliousness we witness today in these ever-expanding red states, as they continue to adamantly cast their votes of rebellion and slowly nudging the few remaining "blue-states" into the Atlantic and Pacific.
A rebel gene that guarantees that our democratic republic will continue to survive and flourish as our rebel founders intended.
Yes, we Rebels lost the Civil War "battle" but continue to win the "Rebel War" for those principles upon which our country was founded
It's jes in our genes!
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Political Correctness be Damned October 21, 2008
29 out of 41 found this review helpful
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 to legally and constitutionally secede from unbearable tyranny finally see the light of day.
It is becoming more and more difficult for the indoctrinated to assert the simplistic explanation that "the Civil War was over slavery" as insurmountable evidence to the contrary becomes available to the public. In fact, the War for Southern Independence was not a "civil war" at all (the South sought not control of a central government, but freedom from same, and the constitutional establishment of their own government).
The dreams of the Founding Fathers ended in 1865. States Rights and individual liberty - as well as the noble democratic experiment itself - were irreparably altered by the Northern "victory."
Southerners have known for generations that the Union victory was a defeat for all Americans. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War precisely why this is true.
This book should be used in every history class in the United States. Given time, the concept of the "civil war" being over slavery shall be as laughable as the long undisputed concept that the Earth was flat.
Deo Vindice.
The Story of the Civil War vividly written. October 20, 2008
29 out of 33 found this review helpful
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 Christmas gift for any lover of history that this wonderful book.
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