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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 219065" data-attributes="member: 9521">Philly - have you read much on the antebellum South and so-called &quot;barnburners&quot; secessionists of that time? I can't help but notice the similarity between the barnburners dialogue with that of the current day Tea party. Don't get me wrong, I'm not comparing their cause to that of slavery but their hyperbola and polemics do have some similar qualities that's hard not to miss. And yes, this time period in US history still remains fascinating for a lot of us history buffs. I don't think there's any other war in which there are so many people willing to dress up and reenact specific battles. A quick measure of the number of books written about this war clearly outnumbers any other event in US history. It's interesting to note that history's retelling of this war has changed several times over the last 150 yrs and it seems the Southern revisionists story has run its ground and the pendulum has swung back again to slavery as the root cause again. With that in mind, I'm curious to read Shelby Foote's &quot;Civil War narrative&quot;. But before I do, I'd like to have a very firm grip on the facts first. Have you read Foote's books yet, by chance?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 219065, member: 9521"] Philly - have you read much on the antebellum South and so-called "barnburners" secessionists of that time? I can't help but notice the similarity between the barnburners dialogue with that of the current day Tea party. Don't get me wrong, I'm not comparing their cause to that of slavery but their hyperbola and polemics do have some similar qualities that's hard not to miss. And yes, this time period in US history still remains fascinating for a lot of us history buffs. I don't think there's any other war in which there are so many people willing to dress up and reenact specific battles. A quick measure of the number of books written about this war clearly outnumbers any other event in US history. It's interesting to note that history's retelling of this war has changed several times over the last 150 yrs and it seems the Southern revisionists story has run its ground and the pendulum has swung back again to slavery as the root cause again. With that in mind, I'm curious to read Shelby Foote's "Civil War narrative". But before I do, I'd like to have a very firm grip on the facts first. Have you read Foote's books yet, by chance? [/QUOTE]

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