[AGL] Jackson article

[michele mason]

Try the complete 3 vol set by Shelby Foote, arguably the best of the 
historians of the War Between the States. Not all Southerners were 
racist, some were among the most courageous of the abolitionists—both 
in secret and public speaking.  mm

On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> Jon and Kathy,

>

> Thanks for forwarding the article on Jaxon. I for 1 am going to make a 

> more

> serious effort to track down Jaxon's various books, especially the 1 

> about

> post-Civil War Reconstruction so i can see what the fuss was about. The

> notion of writing from the viewpoint and in sympathy with racist 

> southerners

> is an odd 1; short of actually reading the book it seems impossible to

> imagine it.

>

> Neither the UT library nor the Austin public library have any of these 

> books

> (i looked for them after the memorial last summer) but they should be

> available by Interlibrary Loan.

>

> Mike

>

>

>