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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.
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Though often portrayed as a Wild West bandit, in this biography Jesse James emerges as a far more significant figure – a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used his crimes and notoriety to promote the Confederate cause during the bitter decade that followed Appomattox.
| Weight | 0.373 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.3 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 510 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | New edition |
| Dewey | 364.1552092 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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