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ISBN 1-56837-349-5 As a historian who only rarely reviews books I must say that The South Under Siege is an extraordinary work. The word brilliant comes to mind. Frank Connor has produced a history lesson that every educator in America should be forced to read. Most members of the Supreme Court as well as the Congress would also benefit from it. It is in fact the detailed history of the Confederate States of America from 1830 to 2000. As such it demonstrates the lengths to which the Eastern Yankee establishment went and has continued to go to keep the South down. It is not only an economic and political history but does what most historians refuse to do it goes into the cause of the war, who benefited from it as well as its profiteers. In lucid detail the book explains the social and religious underlying principals behind the North as well as the South, and how those variances affected the war and its resulting devastation of the South. One can learn in clear language how from Lincoln to FDR the Constitution was violated. How Lincoln tried and failed to create a dictatorship and was stopped by the Supreme Court, and how he subsequently tried to stack the Court by increasing the number of justices. How FDR and Lincoln were alike in their convoluted haphazard management stile which in the case of the War of Northern Aggression as well as WWII resulted in lengthening both wars and causing the deaths of untold thousands for political re-election expediency. If you are interested in American history this book is a must read! Only one more thing can be added. "Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it!" Page URL: http://www.kriegbooks.com/the_south_under_siege.html Author hereby grants permission to e-mail this commentary, in its entirety and including the Web page URL, to those interested in receiving the information. Please e-mail for Adrian's PERMISSION in advance, to post, reprint, or reproduce this article for any other format of publication, electronic or otherwise. |