SHANE : Traitor tyrant assassin (fülszöveg)
From the earliest history lessons in elementary school to the graduate level history programs at some of this nation's finest universities, Americans have come to a common understanding of the events which led to a southern confederacy seceding from the United States in 1861 and the tragic civil war in which these events culminated. For over a century, Americans have attributed the central dispute between the North and the South to the issue of slavery, the right to extend the practice to the western territories, and the growing resentment between an increasingly industrialized north and a rural economy in the south where slavery was considered to be an integral element in the survival of the plantation system. This comfortable if tragic version of history has long gone unquestioned, but in his stunning new book Traitor Tyrant Assassin: Chief of the Rebellion, author Mark Shane reveals for the first time the shocking events and treachery which really motivated the Southern Confederacy to secede and eventually launch an attack against Fort Sumter in 1861.
For five generations Mark Shane's family closeted the unknown, original documents of John H. Bolts, a Virginia congressman and confidant of Abraham Lincoln and a man who witnessed and recorded contacts between key Northern and Southern politicians, military leaders, and high-ranking officers in an attempt to capture the perfidy and greed which led a nation into a war with itself. The startling documents which Shane reveals to the world for the first lime in Traitor Tyrant Assassin shed light on the real motivations behind the Southern Confederacy's actions and elucidates the fact that the American Civil War was not a war fought between slaveholders and abolitionists but rather was the result of an intense struggle by Southern leaders initiated to gain more wealth and power. In John H. Boll's own words, the institution of slavery "...had nothing to do with this war...it [was] used as an instrument and a lever for accomplishments of another purpose, namely the perpetuation of their own [Southern leaders] power under a Southern confederacy...."
Highlighted by authentic letters between Colonel Isaac W. Hayne, attorney general of South Carolina; Jefferson Davis; John Slidell; and other southern power brokers, Traitor Tyrant Assassin painstakingly blazes a path through the dense, murky forest of mistruths and impetuses which fueled the unrest and distrust between the North and the South and culminates in a meticulous examination of the events which led to the assassination of President Lincoln.
This eye-opening work also includes an elucidating examination of the events surrounding two of the least discussed but perhaps most important events before and during the war — the War Crimes Trials, initiated by President Lincoln to bring justice and attention to the victims of many of the Confederacy's perfidious activities — and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's written message to Congress in which he declared his support for the Confederacy.
Traitor Tyrant Assassin: Chief of the Rebellion will immediately astonish every American and historian with its uncontested evidence of the real circumstances behind our country's actions during the horrible years of 1861–1865 and cause us all to rethink our concepts of what our forefathers supposedly stood for. It is a compelling and thought provoking piece of revisionist history sure to provide a startling perspective of that momentous historical period which will fascinate many and glean an important insight for all Americans seeking to properly chart the evolution of their nation.
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