🧵Jefferson Davis’ thousand-page "The Rise and Fall of The Confederate Government" is one people are always shocked to learn exists.
I’ve known Civil War history buffs to spit-take “Wait What!?” it is so rarely cited or talked about.
Every Westerner grows up learning Mein Kampf is this evil book you shouldn’t read and is, we are told, very very poorly written (by people who read YA and NYT AutoBio Fiction no less)… They also grow up being taught the confederacy was an evil regime nearly as bad as Hitler’s…
But it seems we’re carefully directed to the Mad Austrian Painter’s book and NOT directed to the book written by the US regime’s ancient internal enemy, written natively in English, and argued not with obscure pre-war European geopolitical norms, economics, and ethnography, but instead presents a highly plausible reading of America’s own founding documents, history, and values as presented by one of the most celebrated politicians and statesmen of his day.
Out of all the politicians, warriors, and madmen who’ve taken on the US government, this is the man who came closest to taking Washington DC, driving the American President himself to flight, and ending the United States permanently… And he lived to write about it!
And Americans don’t even know he wrote a thing!
And I went to his house! The White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, now buried amidst bad neighborhoods, hospitals, and open-air drug dealing (it is something to walk through what 6 generations of Southerners warned of)… I paid the 15$ to take the tour, and in the midst of all that, I saw the Jefferson Davis house remarkably and beautifully preserved and restored (The Daughters of the Confederacy made a big project of it in the 1890s)… At the end of that tour when I went to the museum gift shop in the neighboring hospital, the tour guide carefully locking and closing the shutters behind up…
The extensive Museum gift store did not sell Davis’ books! Lots of works by or on Frederick Douglass and various books on the supposed Enigma of Lincoln…
But NOT the books by the man whose house IS the Museum.
THAT IS CANCELLED! When you go to the author’s house and you can’t buy his book!
What a Mad Lad.
Image on the right is The White House of the Confederacy. I asked, it wasn’t Losing the War that did this, it was still a ritzy neighborhood til the 1960s… This was just the only white household that was not put to flight.)
I’ve known Civil War history buffs to spit-take “Wait What!?” it is so rarely cited or talked about.
Every Westerner grows up learning Mein Kampf is this evil book you shouldn’t read and is, we are told, very very poorly written (by people who read YA and NYT AutoBio Fiction no less)… They also grow up being taught the confederacy was an evil regime nearly as bad as Hitler’s…
But it seems we’re carefully directed to the Mad Austrian Painter’s book and NOT directed to the book written by the US regime’s ancient internal enemy, written natively in English, and argued not with obscure pre-war European geopolitical norms, economics, and ethnography, but instead presents a highly plausible reading of America’s own founding documents, history, and values as presented by one of the most celebrated politicians and statesmen of his day.
Out of all the politicians, warriors, and madmen who’ve taken on the US government, this is the man who came closest to taking Washington DC, driving the American President himself to flight, and ending the United States permanently… And he lived to write about it!
And Americans don’t even know he wrote a thing!
And I went to his house! The White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, now buried amidst bad neighborhoods, hospitals, and open-air drug dealing (it is something to walk through what 6 generations of Southerners warned of)… I paid the 15$ to take the tour, and in the midst of all that, I saw the Jefferson Davis house remarkably and beautifully preserved and restored (The Daughters of the Confederacy made a big project of it in the 1890s)… At the end of that tour when I went to the museum gift shop in the neighboring hospital, the tour guide carefully locking and closing the shutters behind up…
The extensive Museum gift store did not sell Davis’ books! Lots of works by or on Frederick Douglass and various books on the supposed Enigma of Lincoln…
But NOT the books by the man whose house IS the Museum.
THAT IS CANCELLED! When you go to the author’s house and you can’t buy his book!
What a Mad Lad.
Image on the right is The White House of the Confederacy. I asked, it wasn’t Losing the War that did this, it was still a ritzy neighborhood til the 1960s… This was just the only white household that was not put to flight.)
The above is an Excerpt from my "Real Banned Books list"
Read the full list here:
anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchon…
Read the full list here:
anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchon…
For any of you who doubt the work has been effectively disappeared... Especially when you consider this was THE HEAD OF STATE for one of the two belligerents (and Lincoln didn't live to write a book)
https://x.com/ProgressingCali/status/1743820891711222175?s=20
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