The Yankee Problem

An American Dilemma

By: Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Narrated by: K.W. Keene

Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Granny Clampett, on the TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, described the War Between the States as "when the Yankees invaded America" and, indeed, it was!

Their invasion of America, however, goes back much farther than the conflict of 1861-1865. It began as soon as they dropped their anchor in Plymouth Bay. Since that time, they have meddled, cheated, and lied their way into every nook and cranny of American life.

The Southern people warned others about the radical utopians of New England, and even went to war to get away from them, but to no avail. Now all Americans, not just Southerners, are subject to the whims of "those people" and their never ending mission to recreate, not only America, but the entire world in their bizarre, sanctimonious image.

Dr. Clyde Wilson, in this first installment of The Wilson Files, takes the Yankee problem head on. After decades of historical research and personal observation, he exposes and explains these pesky purveyors of mischief and mayhem! If you want to understand America, American History, and the upside-down dystopian nightmare in which we all live, you have to understand the problem.

We do not have an economic problem, a race problem, a class problem, a gender problem, a toilet access problem, a drug problem, a gun problem, or any other ideological or social problem at the root of America's dysfunctional anticulture; we have a Yankee problem!

©2016 Clyde N. Wilson (P)2017 Shotwell Publishing LLC

A Pioneering work of Historiography

Clyde Wilson starts what should be a movement toward studying the Northeast as the American “other.” They are a much greater candidate for it than the South is.

Great info.

While it repeats information at times, it contains a trove of facts that are often times left out . It is a great jumping off point for further research and study.

A Classic Review on Southern Perspective

The audiobook was very educational and gave a perspective not influenced by political correctness. We’ve got an issue in this country where the citizen is influenced by Hegelianism. They believe the sides that are presented consist of one side that is correct. The Yankee Problem does engage in that platform. Frankly, I think it qualifies as a textbook for a more balanced perspective as American history.

Worthwhile Text; Dreadful Performance

Had purchased the paperback but never got around to reading it, so this was going to be my shortcut to getting a few of the essays under my belt while driving.

The content is as expected: a witty, trenchant critique of the dominant “Yankee” account of American history. There is some overlapping material here, but nothing you wouldn’t otherwise anticipate from a collection of essays.

However the reading, the actual performance, is absolutely dreadful. It’s worse than dreadful. The individual who did the reading breaks every line into two- to four-word phrases, each of which ends with the gravity and terminal to e that one would expect for the last sentence of a long tale. In effect every statement has equal emphasis—which means there is no emphasis on anything. Worse, there’s no regard for the phrasing and the content of the text. When you chop up a 3,000 word essay into two-word phrases, it becomes an exercise in acoustic agony.

It’s too bad, too, because given the topic it would have been great to find a knowledgeable reader with a Southern accent—or even better, someone with a Boston accent!