Coming Soon …

I have two new books coming out in the next 6 months:

The first is by the Abbeville Institute Press and covers the first secession crisis, this one over the Compromise of 1850, and specifically Mississippi’s reaction to it. Mississippi was the lead state pushing back against Northern attempts to dominate the Union and deprive the South of its equal rights. It centers on what I call Mississippi’s Triumvirate: Senator Jefferson Davis, Governor John A. Quitman, and Congressman Albert Gallatin Brown, forming a States’ Rights trio that led the fight for Southern Rights in Mississippi.

The second book, by Regnery History, comes out in September and examines the month of August 1964, which I contend is the “turning point” in Lyndon Johnson’s presidency – Gulf of Tonkin Incident(s), Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the first bills of the War on Poverty/Great Society, and LBJ’s critical decision to run for a term in his own right that year. Unbeknownst to many, Johnson seriously considered dropping out of the race that crucial month. Had he done so, we would see LBJ in a totally different light than we do today. Included in the story is Johnson’s contentious relationship with Bobby Kennedy, Freedom Summer, the fight over the seating of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates at the Atlantic City convention, his choice of a running mate, his questionable finances and his connection with Bobby Baker and other shady friends.