The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again) | 
 enlarge | Author: Clint Johnson
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1596985003
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9781596985001
Publication Date: January 17, 2007
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Product Description
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the pro-South slant of the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Author Clint Johnson shows why the South, with its emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, military service, good manners, small government, and independent-minded people, should certainly rise again.
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 In the modern politically correct world we live in today, this book is a breath of fresh air! March 12, 2007
Steven Laden (Morris Chapel, TN)
24 out of 31 found this review helpful
Yankee intelligentsia and the PC Crowd won't give this book rave reviews, either will revisionist historians. In fact, I will surmise they will write ten poor reviews for my one just to keep you from reading it, which should tell you right away that if it make them this mad, it's probably true.
This is a great book, it's not going to win Nobel prizes, makes no apologies for being a whole lot biased, but for the casual reader interested in learning the Southern side of things, it's a welcome addition.
It's important to note that the book is not just about the "War Between The States". It's so much more revealing than just the Civil War.
This is the book I would recommend to parents interested in countering the left leaning indoctrination Southern and for that matter, Northern children are getting in public schools and Academia. While it's important to note, there are other more "intellectual" works done on Southern history such as Charles Adam's "In the Course of Human Events" or any of James Ronald Kennedy's works, this is the perfect book for the casual reader.
This is in no way saying that the author hasn't done their homework, or there is anything un-intelligent about the book. On the contrary, the author has done a superb job of keeping this insightful book simple and easy to digest and doesn't delve so far deep into little known archives and microfiche that otherwise might lose the casual reader.
The book takes a progressive step into a new form of history writing that will attract new readers, casual readers who might otherwise not be interested in history. This is tremendously important in an age where most young people get very little exposure to history at all, let alone the Southern side of it, which in most history books is non-existent.
I recommend this book for just about anyone, I think it could be most useful for parents who are home schooling a child, for high school and college students, and would be especially good for the culture shocked-transplanted Yankee, trying to make sense their new Southern neighbors.
Not Politically Correct, But True March 15, 2007
P. N. Anderson (Huntsville, AL USA)
41 out of 55 found this review helpful
This is an excellent presentation of facts about the South, which have either been overlooked or ignored in the past. At the heart of the book is the War Between the States, otherwise known as the Civil War. The author refutes the accepted cause as being slavery in the South. He agreed that slavery was wrong, but pointed out how it was supported in the North in such ways as building ships to support the slave trade business. President Lincoln had a number of opportunities to free some slaves and did not do so. The secession of the South was not primarily over the issue of slavery. Economic policy was a primary cause for the secession. The South did not want war. President Lincoln did not want the country divided. The author pointed out a number of atrocities committed by the North against Southern civilians including the unnecessary burning of a number of towns and cities.
The so-called Reconstruction period following the war was a shameful travesty in our history. It is highly unlikely that the United States has ever treated a defeated foreign enemy as badly as it did the South following the war. This would almost certainly not have been the case if President Lincoln had not been assassinated at the war's end. Lincoln had shown no contempt and only wanted to "bind up the nation's wounds."
The author also maintains that the South has been shortchanged in credit for its place in American history including establishment of the early settlements and the fight for independence.
Another excellent book in a great series December 25, 2006
A. Vrooman
46 out of 62 found this review helpful
This is the fourth PIG book I've read, and as usual it lays out tons of information without the fluff in an easy, fun to read platform. As always, this book is just a primer that gets the reader interested in reading up further on the subject, as with other PIG's.
If you are a resident of the southern United States, this book may be boring to you since every good southerner is familiar enough with the history of this great region and won't likely find anything they didn't know in here. For the rest of the US, it comes highly recommended especially if you've never visited the south. I'm just a southern wannabe, I love the place and moved to Oregon last year since it reminds me of northern Georgia.
Great book! February 11, 2007
Frank Horn
27 out of 38 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very informative and encouraging. What a challenge to traditional thinking. Also this book ought to be taught in every school to counteract the brainwashing our young people are being indoctrinated with through the public school system. Awesome!
Civil War = Tremendous sadness July 9, 2007
Alex Novak (Boston, MA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me make no mistake in this report of mine, I love and adore President Abraham Lincoln and hate the history of slavery just as any rational and fair minded person in America does today.
But there are allot of amazing, wonderful facts about the South that have been forcefully buried over the years by left wing degenerate PC morons with a radical secular progressive agenda to shove down our throats. These stupid people, or useful idiots as Lenin called them, have made the South out to be evil when it is NOT. (A large portion of our military consists of the descendants of the Confederate Army, very brave Christian American warriors that the left has contempt for. - because many leftists are true cowards hiding behind the ACLU and other clown like mediums)
For example, the south legally did have a right to succeed from the union, because in reality with the exception of issues like the War on Terrorism, federal crime violations- or national- international commerce and relations, the states have allot of power (but oligarchic thugs in the Supreme Court have decided over the years to place the power in their elitist hands- not the hands of the people of the states where it belongs.)
The only thing the south did wrong in my opinion was continue the brutal practice of slavery- violating the very essence of the Declaration of Independence from Britain. Thus the Civil War was one of the most horrible in human history- an unjust brutal war where tons of American heroes on both sides were slaughtered, the survivors lived with the memories of hellish battles and many were on drugs just like our Nam vets are today.
The only reason that I personally would fight for my state if I lived during the Civil War was to end slavery (that wasn't the North's real reason), but I would hate it with in every fiber of my being to have to be forced to kill a fellow honorable real American.
Let's look at the reality here; the North has been corrupt for years. As we can see today it's the North where the stupidity of leftism, and also places like California, breed like wild fire.
The racial bigotry was wrong and evil, as was slavery but the south was NOT evil. It is just as American as the north.
The south is truly an awesome part of American culture, and history.
God rest the soul of the honorable General Robert E Lee, and all the soldiers of both north and south.-"And I don't care what some modern PC idiot thinks either!"
What an unthinkable tragic war to have American verse American- I am glad I was not alive then to see that horror.
This book had me whistling Dixie, "Look away, look away Dixieland!"
Death to Al-Qaeda, and may God bless America
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