books about: confederate

books about: confederate

books:

Confederate

Robert E. Lee on Leadership : Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision

H. W. Crocker III

Three Rivers Press, 2000

The Great American - R E Lee
Not at all a Marble Man, Robert E. Lee was a true leader. This book does him justice and puts his leadership skills and abilities into a modern context useful for anyone in a leadership role. It's much more a character study than a business book. The author clearly is ...

Settling Accounts In at the Death (Settling Accounts)

Harry Turtledove

Del Rey, 2008

Must read to complete
I wish Mr. Turtledove had continued the series. But this was a fitting was to end it. After 11 books, I can see why he wanted to end this series. A very good book, especially if you've read the other 10.

In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

James Lee Burke

Avon, 1994

Haunting, modern, violent Louisiana Gothic.....Ex-cellent....
If you know already know the writings of J.L.B., then I need say no more. If you don't, but have a decent vocabulary and think you might enjoy some action packed stories with a sense of melancholy, a violent (yet literary and well meaning) narrator, and tales of ...

Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart

Jeffry D. Wert

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Another Excellent Biography from Wert
The Army of Northern Virginia possessed more than its' share of large than life figures. Some of them have become American icons, while the balance is familiar to the Civil War community. Their images grace our artwork, books, and stamps or are the subject of ...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again)

Clint Johnson

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007

Good Book
I ordered this for my BF as a gift. He really liked it. Some of the facts were maybe a little off, but the basic gist of the book is good. It makes you proud to be a Southerner and shows the importance of preserving our culture when outside sources are moving in and ...

War Crimes Against Southern Civilians

Walter Brian Cisco

Pelican Publishing Company, 2007

War Crimes
I have sometimes wondered if my paternal grandmother should have instilled in me such an intense antipathy toward Lincoln and the North by telling me the stories she heard firsthand from her grandmother who suffered some of Sherman's savageries in South Carolina, but ...

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

T.J. Stiles

Vintage, 2003

Interesting political take on Jesse James
This is a fascinating work on Jesse James. It is not so much a standard biography as a "political history" of James. And that makes this an interesting read. The question animating this book is (page4): "Why should one set of criminals be so much more memorable than ...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

Vintage, 1999

Fun, fair & worth every penny
As will be the case with all my reviews, I'm going to record my reaction to the book, not summarize it. If you want to know what the book is all about, read a few of the longer reviews (which, at the time of this writing, numbered about 250.) Or better yet, buy it; ...

General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse

Joseph Glatthaar

Free Press, 2008

A history of the Army of Northern Virginia
This is a fascinating book. On the one hand, its depiction of the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) is well known. On the other, it goes into considerable detail on the everyday lives of Lee's (and, earlier, Johnston's and Beauregard's) army. As such, it does add ...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War (Politically Incorrect Guides)
H. W. Crocker III

Regnery Publishing, 2008

Get ready for a rousing rebel yell as bestselling author H.W. Crocker, III ( Robert E. Lee on Leadership ) charges through bunkers and battlefields in The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to the Civil War . Crocker busts myths and shatters stereotypes as he profiles eminent--and colorful--military generals while taking readers through chapters ...

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Viking Adult, 2007

a man
I think Lee would have liked this book. Remember, Robert E. Lee was a devout Christian. According to Lee's Bible, Jesus Christ said that nobody is "good" but God. Lee was a humble man, and all his life he tried to learn from his own mistakes, his father's, those of ...

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War ...

Gary W. Gallagher

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

How we see the Civil War
The Civil War is one of the most important events in American history, generating tons of books, magazines, memorials, paintings and statuary. The day the war ended, participants seem to have started books on their experience. Publishing has not stopped and seems to ...

Lee

Douglas Southall Freeman

Scribner, 1997

R.E. Lee, Man and Gentleman...
"Lee" is an excellent one-volume abridgment of Douglas Southall Freeman's epic four-volume life of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Freeman's original work, published in 1934, was based on over two decades of research into Lee's correspondence and military ...

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Mary Chesnut

Yale University Press, 1993

Immerse Yourself In Chesnut's Suffering World
Mary Chesnut was a name dropper, and thank goodness, because in passing along her gossip, opinions, news, and personal undertakings, she created the most comprehensive day-to-day record of life in the Confederacy that we have. Although this is both a diary and a later ...

The South Was Right!

James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy

Pelican Publishing Company, 1994

This book busts every myth and revision produced against Southern history
It always annoyed me how countries including France and England would constantly mock Americans for our lack of appreciation, understanding, or simple knowledge of our own history. However, who could say they were wrong? During the last few decades of the last ...