TRR: True cause of the War

Blessmag

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James Lutzweiler, A friend of mine has written a book asserting that the PRIMARY (but not "exclusive." Let me say that again, "PRIMARY, NOT EXCLUSIVE) cause of the War for Southern Independence was the fierce 1845-1851 sectional (Southern, Northern, Western, Midwestern, Southwestern, Northeastern, and Northwestern) conflict over where the first footprint of the transcontinental railroad was going to go. In the process he tackles and head-butts Slavery Laureates like James McPherson, William Davis, and William Freehling who barely even mention the subject in their works. He argues that this is not just a minor oversight but a major oversight that has distorted a great deal about the war, to say nothing about the Confederacy. In short, he argues that the War was not fought over the paltry few acres we call Fort Sumter, but the zillions of acres of the trans-Mississippi West with California and its several ports on the Pacific for trade with Peking. Stephen Ambrose agreed with Lutzweiler and Eugene Genovese called one chapter alone "arresting."


If you send Lutzweiler an email at [email protected], he might send you a free e-copy of his treatise provided you promise to critique it with all the bitterness and rancor you can muster for dissing the overwhelmingly obvious-to-blind-bats slavery paradigm. You won't be able to insult him no matter how hard you try. He has thick skin and compelling logic. Find one weakness in his argument and he might buy your dinner.


Gary Blessman
 

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