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[L Verge]

(08-27-2014 06:55 PM)L Verge Wrote:  It is a very good read and one that clears the cobwebs out of the brain after one has read too many assassination accounts. I don't know of anyone who is more precise about citations than Bill Richter! Just reading his notes and jotting down his sources, one can start using the list to know what to acquire for a personal assassination library.

Just one thing, Bill - before it goes into a second printing, please have someone clean up some simple typos: Queensberry should be Quesenberry in the Introduction, and Herold is given as Harold in quite a few places (a typical error in 1865). Your publisher should have a proofreader on staff to catch such things. And, I know I'm being picky...Sorry.

I am more than half-way through the book now (after a week of personal distractions). If for no other reason, get it in your hands and read pages 83-131 for one of the best, most concise, and understandable summations for the coming of the Civil War and the fundamental reconstruction of our political system.

Bill did much the same thing in Sic Semper Tyrannis (and also in Last Confederate Heroes), but the average student could save themselves hundreds of dollars in textbooks and general, non-fiction accounts by just reading Bill's explanation (with appropriate citations from all levels) as portrayed in JWB's discussions with Sarah Slater.

If my Civil War 101 instructor in college had done it this way, I might have been able to stay awake. It makes sense!