Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

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I spoke to Bob Swicklick. And This is John Bachelor. I spoke to Bob Swickley, the author of the new book Sheridan's Secret Mission,

How the South won the War after the Civil War.

It's 1874 and Phil Sheridan as famous as Ulysses Grant and

William to come to Sherman arrives in New Orleans with a woman he will marry soon enough and an entourage claiming he's on vacation.

Bob Swicklick explains that no one is fooled.

Sheridan is there to enforce grants intention to clean up the

mobs that have been operating lawlessly in and around New Orleans.

More of this tonight.

Southerner who cared, who knew who Sheridan was,

wasn't immediately suspicious of why he was arriving in town.

When he got off the train, there were already people,

there had already been speculation when he was riding the train to the south that he was up to no good there from the southern point of view that he was

there to sort of to cause trouble for the southern states and what the

daily picky in the newspaper of New Orleans the white conservative

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