Wednesday reading

If you read enough you are very likely to run across some less than stellar books. I took the time to read one this past week hoping it would be better than it was. Edward H. Bonekemper III's new book The Myth of the Lost Cause has the fairly straight forward goal of tearing down the details of myth that dominated Southern thinking about the Civil War from the end of the war for over a century, and conservative Southern thinking up to today. One would think that such a book would be unnecessary today. But a few months ago I read a book called Lost Triumph: Lee's real plan at Gettysburg, which showed clearly some of the delusions that Bonekemper wanted to destroy. ( read more about some sorry history books )