New book Defending Dixie's Land: What Every American Should Know About The South And The Civil War  is an all-encompassing defense of the South. Available on Amazon.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1- Look Away!!! Politically Incorrect Information About Life as a Southern Slave
Chapter 2- I'll Take my Stand-Causes of Southern Secession: The Cotton States
Chapter 3- I'll Take My Stand Causes of Southern Secession-The Upper South
Chapter 4- Old Times There are not Forgotten- The Union Before Lincoln
Chapter 5- To Live And Die In Dixie - Black Support For The Confederacy
Chapter 6- I Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton- Southern Agrarians vs. Northern Industrialization
Chapter 7- Treatment of Minorities North vs. South
Chapter 8- Will, the Real Abraham Lincoln Please, Stand up?
Chapter 9- Politically Incorrect Information About Slavery
Chapter 10- The Old Times are Gone with the Wind
Conclusion

One should never feed the troll. However just for information, from all the reviews and quoted chapters that I've seen this book is not so much 'Defending Dixie ...', as yet another pathetic attempt to defend the undefendable. It seems to have very little academic worth and should probably just be consigned to the dustbin as simple and blatant propaganda. I suggest, Isaac C Bishop, that you takes your political proselytizing elsewhere.

Meles meles wrote:

From all the reviews and quoted chapters that I've seen this is not so much 'Defending Dixie ...', as yet another pathetic attempt to defend the undefendable. This book seems to have very little academic worth and should probably just be consigned to the dustbin as blatant propaganda. The revisionist ideas it tries to support have little support not is there much interest in it at all. So, Isaac C Bishop, perhaps you should try your political proselytizing elsewhere.

Thanks for your unbiased and open-minded thoughts!!!! Posts like these reassure me the time spent writing was not only well worth it but desperately needed.

Whatever.

You chose to post on our history discussion forum simply to publicise your book, but then only listed chapter headings and nothing more. You could perhaps have explained your basic thesis; argued why your ideas were new; dealt with any long-established facts that run counter to your arguement; and otherwise tried to convince us why we should have the slightest interest in reading your book. But no, you didn't.

Your book currently costs $18 from Amazon in the US (but that's excluding shipping) and so I very much doubt that any of us here in the rest of the world outside of the US - and btw on this site we're nearly all British, British Commonwealth or Europeans - are sufficiently interested to fork out that much for yet another neo-confederate attempt to re-write history.

Is this you, Isaac - if you I don't think you are likely to be a southern white supremacist https://www.instagram.com/isaacpbishop/ By the way if you don't like me printing the link let me know and I'll delete it.

MM is right that times are hard in the UK and other parts of Europe currently. I tend to try and get any books I'm interested out on library loan at the moment. Could you tell us in a succinct way why you were inspired to write your book, why you thought certain subject matter needed to be addressed and so on and so forth. I can't speak for other people but I'll at least weigh up your reasons if you decide to mention them.

LadyinRetirement wrote:

Is this you, Isaac - if you I don't think you are likely to be a southern white supremacist https://www.instagram.com/isaacpbishop/  By the way if you don't like me printing the link let me know and I'll delete it.

MM is right that times are hard in the UK and other parts of Europe currently. I tend to try and get any books I'm interested out on library loan at the moment. Could you tell us in a succinct way why you were inspired to write your book, why you thought certain subject matter needed to be addressed and so on and so forth.  I can't speak for other people but I'll at least weigh up your reasons if you decide to mention them.

Great post and thanks for the interest. If you go on Amazon and read the "look inside" 

https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Dixies-Land-American-Should/dp/B0C1J3J6Z6/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1681258901&sr=8-1

you will be able to read what generated my interest and what caused me to write the book and cover the subject I did.

I've had a look at the "look inside". There were a couple of decent reviews, one being from a Professor Emiritus. The other reviewer is one H V Traywick Jr, who himself wrote a book called Empire of the Owls. I looked up information about 'Empire' and, just scratching the surface of the reviewer's "bio" he is a Vietnam survivor but at the time 'Empire' was printed was studying history and cultural anthropology whilst sometimes travelling to Norfolk (not the British one obviously) to serve as a tugboat pilot so he obviously had a varied skillset. I don't condemn anyone for mentioning a book he or she has written because everything is so competitive especially if someone is being his/her own agent.

Isaac, if you get to read this I can't promise that I'll buy your book because I'm a pensioner and in the UK a lot of folk are strapped for cash after the pandemic or I might wait until it is available on Amazon's UK page or there is a kindle version. I don't personally have a Kindle - I have an Elonex which is sort of a poor person's Kindle - but I believe it's possible to download the Kindle software on to an ordinary computer. If I'm truly honest I don't know the history of the American Civil War except the outline. I've heard of the battles of course and saw Gone With The Wind many years ago - it was an old film even when I saw it first and I'm in my 70s!!!!

LadyinRetirement wrote:

I've had a look at the "look inside".  There were a couple of decent reviews, one being from a Professor Emiritus.  The other reviewer is one H V Traywick Jr, who himself wrote a book called Empire of the Owls.  I looked up information about 'Empire'  and, just scratching the surface of the reviewer's "bio" he is a Vietnam survivor but at the time 'Empire' was printed was studying history and cultural anthropology whilst sometimes travelling to Norfolk (not the British one obviously) to serve as a tugboat pilot so he obviously had a varied skillset.  I don't condemn anyone for mentioning a book he or she has written because everything is so competitive especially if someone is being his/her own agent.

Isaac, if you get to read this I can't promise that I'll buy your book because I'm a pensioner and in the UK a lot of folk are strapped for cash after the pandemic or I might wait until it is available on Amazon's UK page or there is a kindle version. I don't personally have a Kindle - I have an Elonex which is sort of a poor person's Kindle - but I believe it's possible to download the Kindle software on to an ordinary computer.  If I'm truly honest I don't know the history of the American Civil War except the outline.  I've heard of the battles of course and saw Gone With The Wind many years ago - it was an old film even when I saw it first and I'm in my 70s!!!!

Your still young!!! I fully understand and do not feel like you must order the book, especially when the subject matter is not of your concern. I was just responding to your question about what inspired me to write the book. 

Question, do you love Tolkien?

Oh dear, should I be truthful or tactful, Isaac. I will try to be both.
I listened to a radio adaptation of Lord of the Rings back in the 1980s. I found it easier to follow the radio adaptation than to actually read the book. Tolkien is/was very clever and I'm usually a pushover for a sword and sorcery story (okay I know the Hobbits didn't really go in for swords). I didn't see the Peter Jackson film but I saw the earlier cartoon version (which was supposed to be in two parts but they only ever made part 1 - it ended circa Boromir's funeral). Mr Tolkien gets on my nerves sometimes when he talks about things like "eleventy-first" birthdays. There is a Tolkien connection to Staffordshire - my home county - I'll link to the site of the County Council because they (it?) probably explain it better than I can. https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Libraries/whatson/local-history-walks/Tolkien-Trail-booklet-Revised-2nd-Edition-2017.pdf I suppose I would say that I don't LOVE his work but I don't hate it either.

LadyinRetirement wrote:

Oh dear, should I be truthful or tactful, Isaac.  I will try to be both.
I listened to a radio adaptation of Lord of the Rings back in the 1980s. I found it easier to follow the radio adaptation than to actually read the book.  Tolkien is/was very clever and I'm usually a pushover for a sword and sorcery story (okay I know the Hobbits didn't really go in for swords).  I didn't see the Peter Jackson film but I saw the earlier cartoon version (which was supposed to be in two parts but they only ever made part 1 - it ended circa Boromir's funeral).  Mr Tolkien gets on my nerves sometimes when he talks about things like "eleventy-first" birthdays.  There is a Tolkien connection to Staffordshire - my home county - I'll link to the site of the County Council because they (it?) probably explain it better than I can.  https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Libraries/whatson/local-history-walks/Tolkien-Trail-booklet-Revised-2nd-Edition-2017.pdf  I suppose I would say that I don't LOVE his work but I don't hate it either.

I thought it would be your patriotic duty to love Tolkien!!! I guess I will refrain from mentioning my Tolkien book that just came out....

Ha! Ha! My late parents and some of my friends and relations have expressed exasperation concerning my attitude to Tolkien. I can't find the thread but nordmann who used to be (and still is technically but he hasn't posted for a long time) the person supervising this site, created a thread that had something to do with Tolkien writing a work that was reminiscent of mythology. I'm going from memory so I may not have remembered exactly.

LadyinRetirement wrote:

Ha! Ha! My late parents and some of my friends and relations have expressed exasperation concerning my attitude to Tolkien.  I can't find the thread but nordmann who used to be (and still is technically but he hasn't posted for a long time) the person supervising this site, created a thread that had something to do with Tolkien writing a work that was reminiscent of mythology.  I'm going from memory so I may not have remembered exactly.

Sounds like you had some sound, intelligent, and wise parents!!!