Bloodstains, An Epic History, Volume 4: Political Reconstruction and the Struggle for Healing: An Epic History of the Politics the Produced and ... the Political Reconstruction that Followed) - Softcover

White, Mr. Howard Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974687545 ISBN 13: 9780974687544

Publisher: Howard Ray White, 2013

Synopsis

Herein, in Volume 4, You Live through the Political Times that Followed the American Civil War. Herein you live, yes live, through those turbulent and amazing times. Why? Because, in Volume 4, much of the pertinent history continues to be told through parallel biographies of the major politicians of the times. Howard Ray White takes you back. He takes you back to those years so that you may live them yourself, because he wants you to personally experience those times and draw your own conclusions about the politics that caused the Civil War, about the politics that produced and sustained such horrific fighting, suffering and death, and — in Volume 4 — about the politics of the 20-year Reconstruction Era and the corresponding struggles for healing that followed Confederate surrender. Have you long wondered what caused the American Civil War? Why were the seceded States not allowed to go in peace? Why did 36,000 Federal have to die? Do you doubt the reasons commonly accepted in today’s society? Have you found the history of the Republican Party’s Political Reconstruction Era baffling? Then you must read White’s Volume 4, for he unravels the confusion while spiriting you along on a journey through which you live those 20 years of Political Reconstruction, of struggle. If you have the time, Howard Ray White has the means. The four volumes of Bloodstains are White’s first books. Unlike the vast majority of historians, he is not a product of American Academia. To the contrary, he is a scientifically trained retired chemical engineer (Vanderbilt University, 1960). Consequently, White is free to present history from a factual, “scientifically correct” perspective, even when doing so is not today considered “politically correct.” And White tells the history and relates the biographies with measured feelings of passionate involvement, for his grandfather’s farmhouse was a Federal field hospital at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River). He explains: “As a child, the bloodstains on the floors cried out to me to someday tell them ‘Why’.” The result, the Bloodstains series, presents the history as White organized it for his personal study and for your maximum understanding. After reading Bloodstains, you will know “Why” with unshakable conviction, for you will have lived it. And White’s powerful index will facilitate inquiry and reader analysis. The four volumes in this series are – · Volume 1: The Nation Builders (2002); · Volume 2: The Demagogues (2003); · Volume 3: The Bleeding (2007) and · Volume 4: Political Reconstruction and The Struggle for Healing (2012). Bloodstains and other works by Howard Ray White are available as print books and as e-books. See www.howardraywhite.com, www.southernhistorians.org or amazon.com for details. Reaction from past readers is extraordinary. They have been truly moved. Examples: · “I have learned more from your books about the politics of America than from all other sources. Thank you for taking time to put the mess into a logical format.” (Florida reader). · “The best true histories of America I have studied.” (Virginia reader). · “Your work cries out to be studied! Utilizing parallel biographies of the main political participants is unlike anything I have ever read.” (Iowa reader).

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About the Author

Howard Ray White turned 80 years old in 2018. He continues to write history and is now engaged in writing historical novels. The four-volume Bloodstains series was his first publication. A retired chemical engineer (Vanderbilt, 1960, Nashville, Tennessee, he brings scientifically correct understanding to his writings. Yet his style of writing resembles a story. He encourages readers of history to just dig in. He also recommends the work he organized, titled Understanding the War Between the States, and written by 16 members of The Society of Independent Southern Historians, an organization he founded. That book is available on Amazon.

Review

The fourth and final volume of Howard Ray White s Bloodstains: An Epic History of the Politics That Produced the American Civil War, has just appeared. There is nothing else like this remarkable work in all the vast library of writing on the Civil War. The four volumes: The Nation Builders, The Demagogues, The Bleeding, and Political Reconstruction and the Struggle for Healing, are available in a print edition and through Kindle. This is definitely not just one more contribution to the guns and bugles history of the War or the celebration of Union righteousness. The work constitutes an unprecedentedly close-up history of American politics from the antebellum era to the healing presidency of Grover Cleveland.

Mr. White is by profession a chemical engineer. His interest in this matter, he tells us, was inspired by the bloodstains on the floor of a family home in Middle Tennessee which had been a hospital during the battle of Murfreesboro. How did this bloodletting come about? White has carried out his research and presented his findings with scientific precision and thoroughness. The result is a compendium of facts not to be found elsewhere, combined with a convincing, detailed narrative. There is a great virtue to this: a precise factual knowledge of the progression of events tells a story and gives a view quite different from the usual sweeping (and partisan) generalizations that pass for historical knowledge. Very few academic historians of today have given as much thought as White has done to what history is and how it is to be rightly constructed. The result is an authority and authenticity rarely achieved these days.

Another virtue is that the narrative is carried along in part by biographical accounts of major figures. This is a venerable and useful approach to history. A close account of the life stories of men like Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stevens teaches us things about their true character and motives that can be learned no other way. To follow White through the most important part of American history is a process of almost endless discovery. --Dr. Clyde Wilson, retired history professor, University of South Carolina

I have just finished reading your third volume of Bloodstains. It, as well as the first two volumes, teaches history in a way that is easy to understand. The political history of the War of Northern Invasion is often minimized with stress upon the battles themselves. Your histories are just the opposite. Emphasis in put upon the politics that caused the war in the first place. I pray that you and I live long enough to read Volume 4. Thank you for a job well done! --Fred Archer, North Carolna reader of Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

I have recommended your great books to many of my friends and family. Sir, I have been impressed over and above what one would normally expect from your tremendous labors in study and print. Your books are, without a doubt, the most informative documented works I have every read on an era that changed this country and indeed the world. --Jacob Minchew, a reader in Georgia

Edition details

• Publisher: Howard Ray White
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0974687545
• ISBN 13: 9780974687544
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560