pretty underqualified. he did have a book to his credits. maybe more importantly he was a farmer. the south in this era was nothing if not an agrarian society. from the autumn of 1862 after the harvest is over, still a farmer by trade. set off for the south. the only way to describe it is nothing could have prepared henry raymond, the editor of the times, nothing could have prepared anyone for what and able reporter he proved to be. he went everywhere, talks to everyone. he talks the plantation owners, slaves, poor white farmers, and produced a series of spectacular dispatchers that literally put a brand-new new york times on the map. in 1861 dispatchers were compiled into a book they read all i can tell you is here it is. a hundred and 50 years later, 8061, and the condom kingdom is still in print. if you want a window into the south on the eve of the civil war was the movie gone with the wind which is fictional but simply has some great and accurate observations about the south and the antebellum or you can read olmstead, absolutely stellar reporting. now, a member of what he ca

he was underqualified, but he had a book to his credit. maybe more importantly, he was a farmer. it was nothing but a society in this era. in the autumn of 1852 after the harvest was over because he was a farmer by trade, he set out for the south, and the only way to describe it is nothing could have prepared henry raymond, the editor of the times, nothing could have prepared anyone for what an able reporter olmstead proved to be. he went everywhere talking to everyone, talked to plantation owner, talked to slaves, talked to poor white farmers, and he produced a series of spectacular dispatchers that put the brand new "new york times" on the map. in 1861, they were compiled into a book called "the cotton kingdom," and all i can say is 150 years later, 1861, and the book is still in print, and if you want a window into the south on the eve of the civil war, you can watch the movie "gone with the wind" which is fictional, but has great observations about the south and the antebellum period, or read olmstead's collections in the cotton kingdom. he's a member of what he calls the lit

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