I thought Elizabeth Varon’s book on Longstreet was outstanding. I also appreciated Fergus Bordewich’s Klan War. Not exactly Civil War but Civil War-adjacent
I thought Elizabeth Varon’s book on Longstreet was outstanding. I also appreciated Fergus Bordewich’s Klan War. Not exactly Civil War but Civil War-adjacent
Thanks for making these mention. I've ordered Varon's book and somehow will find for it the top of my best stack of pending-to-read CW books. (Wife and I are also binge-revenge-watching the presidential campaign of our local-former-DA-about-to-rescue-America.)
The Pandemic created the space for me to study in-depth my favorite battle, then to grow more attentive to its being the root (or taproot, at least?) of The Lost Cause and then to how those lying liars assassinated JL's character as their route to faux-resurrecting REL's character as the Patron Saint of Enslavers. (Anybody seen any books on Lee's rotten officer corps management style?)
Thus, now I am attempting to catch up on JL's true life. Maybe then, Bordewich's book. (Then, KML's book-in-process on Shaw!)
I thought Elizabeth Varon’s book on Longstreet was outstanding. I also appreciated Fergus Bordewich’s Klan War. Not exactly Civil War but Civil War-adjacent
Thanks for making these mention. I've ordered Varon's book and somehow will find for it the top of my best stack of pending-to-read CW books. (Wife and I are also binge-revenge-watching the presidential campaign of our local-former-DA-about-to-rescue-America.)
The Pandemic created the space for me to study in-depth my favorite battle, then to grow more attentive to its being the root (or taproot, at least?) of The Lost Cause and then to how those lying liars assassinated JL's character as their route to faux-resurrecting REL's character as the Patron Saint of Enslavers. (Anybody seen any books on Lee's rotten officer corps management style?)
Thus, now I am attempting to catch up on JL's true life. Maybe then, Bordewich's book. (Then, KML's book-in-process on Shaw!)
Hi Margaret,
Both are excellent books. I am going to try to interview Liz Varon in November to mark the publication of her Longstreet bio in paperback.