“A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.”
True, but the North was run the same way during the war.
Let's say for a moment that what you are saying is true. Even so, it would make all this stuff lost causers say about the tyrannical Lincoln and the freedom-loving South a whole lot of horse-hockey.
That said, go read what LS and his co-author wrote about it. There is no comparison.