Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Manpar Benjamin Franklin Cooling III
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In this effort to get at the mindset of the Confederacy through the prism of one her more problematic sons, by a writer who has made something of a specialty of Early's potential moment of ultimate greatness or failure before the defenses of Washington, the estimate that seems to get at the core of Early's flaws comes from disgruntled subordinate John Gordon. The bottom line for Gordon was that for all Early's real talents the man lacked a certain moral courage that comes from being able to take the honest measure of yourself against your opponent. This lack certainly contributed to Early's misplaced contempt for Yankeedom in general, and his nemesis Phil Sheridan in particular, and is part of the foundation for Early's great, bad lingering gift to American society; the whole Lost Cause mythology of trying to put a gloss on the dubious adventure that was the Confederacy and that contributes to the American politics of resentment. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Military.
Nonfiction.
HTML:In Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man, a new critical biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Civil War historian B.F. Cooling III takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating, idiosyncratic characters in the pantheon of Confederate heroes and villains. Dubbed by Robert E. Lee as his "bad old man" because of his demeanor, Early was also Lee's chosen instrument to attack and capture Washington as well as defend the Shenandoah Valley granary in the summer and fall of 1864. Neither cornered nor snared by Union opponents, Early came closest of any Confederate general to capturing Washington, ending Lincoln's presidency, and forever changing the fate of the Civil War and American history. His failure to grapple with this moment of historical immortality and emerge victorious bespeaks as much his own foibles as the counter-efforts of the enemy, the effects of weather and the shortcomings of his army. From the pinnacle of success, Jubal Early descended to the trough of defeat within three months when opponent General Philip Sheridan resoundingly defeated him in the Valley campaign of 1864. Jubal Early famously exhibited a harder, less gallant personal as a leading Confederate practitioner of "hard" or destructive war, a tactic usually ascribed to Union generals Hunter, Sheridan, and Sherman. An extortionist of Yankee capital in northern towns in Pennsylvania and Marylandâ??typically in the form of tributeâ??Early also became forever associated with the wanton destruction of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, as well as Congressman Thaddeus Stevens private commerical ironworks, and the private dwellings of Maryland governor Augustus Bradford and then Postmaster General Montgomery Blair. How war hardened a crabbed, arthritically hobbled but brilliantly pragmatic soldier and lawyer offers one of the most fascinating puzzles of personality in Civil War history. One of the most alluring yet repellent figures of Southern Confederate history, Jubal Early would devolve from the ideal prewar constitutional unionist to the postwar personification of the unreconstructed rebel and progenitor of the "lost cause" explanation for the demise of the Confederacy's experiment in rebellion or independence. This critical study explains how one of Virginia's loyal sons came through war and peace to garner a unique position in the Confederacy's pantheon of heroesâ??and the Union's cabal of military villains. Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man will appeal to anyone interested in Civil War history and Confederate Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucun
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)355.0092Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Military Science Biography And History BiographyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |