The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
Stephen Budiansky, , read by Phil Cigante. . Brilliance Audio, $34.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-4233-5163-4
Budiansky has clearly done his research on this interesting and largely unknown history of the American South, detailing the origins of America's largest homegrown terrorist sect, the Ku Klux Klan. While the tales are often disturbing and naturally disquieting, they are important stories of real men that have waited decades to be told. Phil Gigante does his very best to insure they are given the appropriate respect they deserve. He offers a solid, unwavering reading that captures the raw brutality and extreme melancholy of the period of the South's reconstruction (1865–1876). Gigante's spellbinding narration is careful never to sound too sympathetic or editorialize, but presents the author's material in an unbiased and dispassionate voice, allowing the truth within to speak for itself.
Reviewed on: 02/25/2008
Genre: Audio
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-1-4233-5162-7
Compact Disc - 978-1-4233-5164-1
Compact Disc - 978-1-5012-7075-8
Hardcover - 322 pages - 978-0-670-01840-6
MP3 CD - 978-1-4233-5166-5
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