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book tv talked with a history professor shaunna amana -- shom drum manning. this was part of book tv college series and was recorded at the library on campus. and now on your screen as professor chandra manning the author of this book "what this cruel war was over soldiers slavery of the war." what was your approach to this book? >> the first thing of the approaches that you give me wait too much credit when you say approach. the book is not at all the book i thought i was going to write when i started. i started with an interest in civil war soldiers to read. absolutely no intenti...

not write a new constitution. however they found -- they found tactical value in what john brown did. and anyone subordinate to the captain, they would encourage them to follow john brown. you have to be subordinate to the caption. it's a tactical operation. you don't send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr. in many ways it was a suicide mission. but one african-american that was recruited in chatham that went with john brown, osborn perry anderson would return. he would return to chatham. originally...

captains don't lead generals. captains are tactical, not strategic. this organization already had a plan, it was to end slavery in league with the constitution, not write a new constitution. however they found -- they found tactical value in what john brown did. and anyone subordinate to the captain, they would encourage them to follow john brown. but you have to be subordinate to the caption. it's a tactical operation. you don't send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr because in many ways it was a s...

league with the constitution, not write a new constitution. however they found, they found tactical value in what john brown did. and any one subordinate to the captain they would encourage them to follow john brown. you have to be subordinate to the caption. it is tactical. you don't send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr. in many ways it was a suicide mission. onech ari can african-american. osborne perry anderson would return. he would return to chatham. originally from pennsylvania. he returns t...

quite take what i'm doing seriously or don't think that i take what i'm doing seriously. no, the genesis of this book -- a lot of people say in their acknowledgements how they came to write a book and it's usually quite frankly invented, but this is actually the real story that many years ago these record albums all came out in 1959, things like miles davis, norman mailer's advertisements for myself, the first french new wave films, lenny bruce, the record and i began to wonder if it was just a coincidence or was their something about that year that made all of these things coalesce ...