History, Without Make-Up On

TNC just finished Grant's memoir:

There are those [who:] manipulate history to bleach the Civil War, who
would sanitize all the unpleasantness until we are left with an
unfortunate family feud in which there was no right or wrong. This is
history marshaled for a kind of nationalist faith-healing. My thoughts
on the apostles of comfortable narrative are a matter of public record.
In my care, the spiritualists have been handled roughly.