Fool's Errand The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 1

have you read it's a novel from a round that shared it's called the fools errand

was written by Albian Torre I don't know he's one of theater Roosevelt's friends he's he's the you know the I write about this encourages calling but there's this famous letter between him and theater Roosevelt where theater Roosevelt is explaining why he invited Booker T. Washington to dine with him at the White House and he says I know it's going to kill me in the Southern states but the fact that I consider that would kill me in the Southern states is why I did it

he writes this novel called the fools errand which is loosely based on his experience in that he's an officer in the union um the war goes well but he fights in the South it kind of falls in love with it and he moves to Alabama or some of the plot of the novels he moves to Alabama and he's just going to be an American in Alabama because this is all the United States and he sort of quickly discovers that that's not how it is and that the people who just waged this horrendous war their minds didn't change because they were beaten on the battlefield and he sort of discovers that also it wasn't even that they'd sort of rationally gotten to think what they had thought but that there was this whole reinforcing structure that had existed that made it impossible to question like that there are all these laws in place and a culture of intimidation that's that hey if you question any of these institutions will inshew will intimidate you will destroy everything you have and so he describes it as this fools errand thinking that you could go into the South during reconstruction and reconstruct it right he basically bumps into the unreconstructed South for which his basic conclusion was like there are there isn't an army big enough in the world to sort of to occupy and change these people's minds