what i was really doing was reconnaissance on the guy to see if it's worth checking out his other stuff or not, and i'm going to give it a go, although i might not stick with it. he seems to talk a lot of confederate history, and i'm not sure if that's because it's what he likes or if it's because it's what he knows.
what i'll say is this, though: if we're going to talk about this kind of history, i actually insist on a western bias underlying it, and there seems to be one here. i just want it to be fair in it's analysis. you don't have to be a racist to be on the west's side, and that's what i want - somebody that tells the story from a eurocentric perspective, without going overboard on it.
so, i'm cautiously continuing, and we'll see if i stick with it or not.