![]() Nevertheless, I was not enamored with the protagonist enough to want to read the first and third parts of this trilogy. ![]() But, again, I found it hard to move past my revulsion at the society he was painting and the social attitudes he was describing and in my mind I kept comparing them to today's maga(t)s and how little progress we have made in the red states. I found that the narrative did move along and there were comic elements as well as more serious ones. All historians can do is make a few passing footnotes to explain why your eyes are pensive and your lips wistful. I have thought that every era of history is written not on books by withered scribes, but upon the hearts and souls of the children of that generation. The writing does occasionally rise above average: "No, but you are made up of that romance and tragedy. ![]() The book is basically a descent throughout where he loses status and commits a crime which becomes widespread knowledge. The protagonist is pretty reprehensible: ex-Confederate Colonel, ex-plantation overseer, ex-KKKlansman, and father of poor, black bastard children. ![]() ![]() It is a realistic document of the racism and hypocrisy in a Southern town. This was a difficult book about Alabama under Reconstruction. ![]()
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