Thomas Fleming

Like I said before, last time we were discussing the 20th century...

One of the reasons I like Thomas Fleming, not the Rockford Institute guy for clarity.

People aren't familiar with the other Thomas Fleming.

He was this East Coast Irish guy.

And we're not going to hold it against him that he's Irish because he was a really good author.

He did.

Years later, Admiral Hart refused to talk about this for a couple of decades.

Talley told Thomas Fleming, who wrote an incredible history of the New Deal regime and the Roosevelt administration, as well as World War II and Roosevelt's role therein.

Before the war, the South was, contrary to modern myth, the wealthier region.

This is noted well in Thomas Fleming's A Disease in the Public Mind, in which he notes, quote, Perhaps most remarkable is how much the South's 4 million slaves were worth as property.

$3 billion.

That sum exceeded the North's investment in railroads and factories.