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,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is John Batcheter.

Here's a piece of a conversation to our conversation with author Robert Swicklich, his new book Sheridan's secret mission.

This is the story of Ulysses Grant then President sending his trusted good friend

General Phil Sheridan on a secret mission to Louisiana. Why? This is the period after the war that we generally

know as reconstruction. There was violence in all directions directed against

the former slaves who were looking to be educated,

citizens with voting rights, male voting rights,

and have their own farms make money prosper in the United States.

And the white leagues and the white liners

who turned on them prevented that.

So of this to be a failure to govern properly.

Suddenly there was a Republican Party in the South and the former slaves voted for it. Political power was

in the hands of Republicans. However, there were things that could be done and one of them the author Bob Swicklich says

tells here the 14th Amendment and how there was a moment that it

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