[MACVSOG68]

I'm half way through your book. Love it. From some of the posts I've seen on this topic, it should be mandatory reading for anyone considering himself a Republican. I'm hoping your book will answer a question I've had for years: How did so many "conservatives" become so enthralled with the Confederacy"? I know it's a topsy turvy world, but I can't find a Democrat anywhere who defends slavery, the Confederacy or attempts to place this blot on our history on a pedestal. Yet there are numerous "states rights" conservatives continually ready to take up the cause.

Keep up the good work!

[Grand Old Partisan]

Thanks!! You are just the sort of intelligent Republican for whom I wrote the book. The book does indeed address why so many conservatives became enthralled with the Confederacy. Do let me know your impressions.

[an amused spectator]

I know it's a topsy turvy world, but I can't find a Democrat anywhere who defends slavery, the Confederacy or attempts to place this blot on our history on a pedestal.

The Democrats who enslaved the blacks on the Southern plantations realized after the war that the percentages were better for them in the big-city plantations. ;-)