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Jesse James
- Last Rebel of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure.
Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Misssouri, at age sixteenJames became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause - in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.
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- john
- 16-02-24
"He who cast the first stone"
A dam good book told by a dam no good yankee...nothing at all about the northern (red leg) Union atrocities
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- Jack
- 28-08-23
90% politics and fluff & 10% Jesse James
Hear me out.
I know politics plays a part in the story of Jesse james but the main hulk of it hardly relates to Jesse james and the parts that do can be explained in so little time to actually get back to the book about JESSE JAMES.
The story of him is fascinating but this book is so full of fluff I would occasionally zone out listening to it because the politics were so darn BORING!
Could have been good but all the fluff really ruined it for me
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