Wilfred (Bill) McClay

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209 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Radio Atlantic · American History as Rorschach Test · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Before it became highlighted as a national issue, there wasn't really a reason to give special attention to it.

I might now.

In fact, we're doing a second edition, and that's one decision, one of about 500 decisions I have to make about what to include in keeping with the fact this is something that people are now interested in that they would not have been interested in at the time, 2019, when I wrote the first edition.

Yeah.

I actually disagree with you about that.

I think that the symbolism... Well, look, I can't judge whether kids would be more interested in one thing or another.

I make the judgment I make.

But I think it's much more important to point out that a way of life is...

is at stake and not just to defeat in the field of battle.

So I'm very happy with that.

It's in a caption, isn't it?

That's not true.

That's just not true.

I have a whole chapter about the Old South that goes into considerable detail about that.

I mean...

It talks more about the experiences of enslavement than it does about the experiences of the master class.

So, yeah.

It wasn't.

I had no process of thinking how much...

Should I depict the violence of this?

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