Edward Sebesta.

[AndyHall]

What do you bet that his extreme positions brings the green his way?

I kinda doubt that. He really does strike me as a personal-crusade sort of guy. He has a number of (mostly online) outlets where he publishes his essays, but I doubt they pay (at all), and AFAIK he's not formally affiliated with any major group or organization.

 

[jgoodguy]

I kinda doubt that. He really does strike me as a personal-crusade sort of guy. He has a number of (mostly online) outlets where he published his essays, but I doubt they pay (at all), and AFAIK he's not formally affiliated with any major group or organization.

There is the personal crusade thing. I tried it once but didm't have the right stuff.
This falls into my everyone has to have a hobby category.

 

[Desert Kid]

What do you bet that his extreme positions brings the green his way?
Possibly the attention stokes his ego. Who knows.

Foote wrote a few more and longer books and did not need the extra stroking.

His book, "For the Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader" is something akin to an anti-"The South Was Right!", to note I didn't like either book. I'm still holding on to my copy of the Kennedy brothers' book, but it is just to remind me that such political advocacy exists.

Foote, he didn't need it, he was one of the more rational writers on the subject, granted with a southern slant, but being that he's from Mississippi it's understandable.

 

[AndyHall]

His book, "For the Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader" is something akin to an anti-"The South Was Right!", to note I didn't like either book.

They're very different books. The difference is that Loewen and Sebesta's book -- I'm convinced Loewen did the heavy lifting on compiling and writing it, BTW -- is is a collection of primary source documents with some commentary thrown in. It's important to read those documents on their own. The Kennedy book is almost all narrative commentary. Leaving the authors' respective positions aside, neither approach is fundamentally wrong, but they really are different animals.

 

[Desert Kid]

They're very different books. The difference is that Loewen and Sebesta's book -- I'm convinced Loewen did the heavy lifting on compiling and writing it, BTW -- is is a collection of primary source documents with some commentary thrown in. It's important to read those documents on their own. The Kennedy book is almost all narrative commentary. Leaving the authors' respective positions aside, neither approach is fundamentally wrong, but they really are different animals.

Though in spirit, they directly oppose each other. Seeing the stances of the authors.

I guess at the end of the day, I just don't like Sebesta's point of view, it further pushes my bias against him with this "Anti-Neo-Confederate" crusade which produced the flags and accusations of others he made.

 

[jgoodguy]

I've read neither. Primary documents are my source.

 

[damYankee]

I never heard of him till I saw this thread. Sounds like a typical self appointed know-it-all talking head. I will not waste my time,thanks for the heads up!

 

[AndyHall]

I never heard of him till I saw this thread.

He would be very sorry to hear you say that.

 

[damYankee]

He would be very sorry to hear you say that.

I doubt it would matter to him. I find that most blowhards don't require an audience to be obnoxious.

 

[tmh10]

I never heard of him till I saw this thread. Sounds like a typical self appointed know-it-all talking head. I will not waste my time,thanks for the heads up!

Somehow I missed him, or read something he wrote and forgot the writer.