![]() 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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