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Southern terrorism after Appomattox [audio 55min]

The Book Guys -- book appraiser Allan Stypeck and Washington DC radio host Mike Cuthbert -- interview Stephen Budiansky, who discusses his book The Bloody Shirt, an account of the terrorism in the South during Reconstruction that eliminated democratic government there for over a century.
Read entire article at The Book Guys #0806