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american civil war
american history
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099521174
- Weight: 373g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps. In the bloodshed and bitterness that followed the South's surrender at Appomattox, Jesse and his fellow guerillas, with their gunfights and hold-ups, became part of the intensely brutal struggle by the White South against the racial egalitarianism and Federal power fostered by Reconstruction.
In the first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years, T. J. Stiles paints a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the American Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath. With groundbreaking scholarship and dazzling reinterpretation, T. J. Stiles has refashioned one of the great legends of American history.
T. J. Stiles studied history at Carleton College and Columbia University, where he was awarded a President's Fellowship. He has written about American history for Smithsonian and the Los Angeles Times, and is the editor of a five-volume series of anthologies of primary sources. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
