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Oracle Of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards And His Never-Ending Civil War
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496211871
ISBN-13
9781496211873
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3058374678
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oracle of Lost Causes : John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Historical
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-056858
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"While the famous figures of the Civil War have garnered untold amounts of attention and while the South's Lost Cause has resulted in a glut of new scholarship in recent years, Matthew Cristopher Hulbert's Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War accomplishes a remarkable feat by adding something new to both Civil War biography and the study of Lost Cause memory."-- Journal of Southern History, "Seasoned readers and readers new to Civil War-era historiography will find much to consider in this biography."--Claire M. Wolnisty, Journal of Arizona History, "More than a biography of a 'natural-born troubadour' and 'fiercely loyal friend,' this fascinating book shows the Civil War and post-Civil War West for what it was, and how myths and legends were made."--Johnny D. Boggs, True West, " Oracle of Lost Causes is an entertaining and informative read that is pushing the field of Civil War history in new and exciting directions--both in its style and content."--Summer Perritt, Civil War Monitor, "The life of John Newman Edwards defies belief. Florid, romantic, and intoxicated by barbarity, he championed the Old South in the quintessential border state, helping former Confederates gain power before he drank himself to death. In Matthew Hulbert's capable hands, Edwards's extraordinary story brings into focus the conflicts that made modern America, in a region that defies definition."--T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon, "Hulbert's book is a vital contribution to our current efforts to confront the enduring legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras."--Christopher Grasso, Missouri Historical Review, "A thorough and admirable attempt to elevate a fascinating supporting character from the Civil War into a starring role . . . Hulbert's effort meets with great success."--Cecily N. Zander, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, " Oracle of Lost Causes is a gripping, fast-paced story of John Newman Edwards's journey from a childhood filled with books in Virginia to an adulthood that veered from Missouri to Mexico and positioned him as an architect of the Lost Cause in the West. But it is much more than a biography. In Matthew Hulbert's skilled hands, readers go deep into the mind of a hardened believer in the supremacy of white people and witness the birth of some of the nation's most stubborn and distorted narratives of its past. By showing us what Edwards saw in the Civil War era and how he wrote about it, Hulbert offers a fascinating and powerful account of how mythmaking has been woven into the writing of history--and, therefore, how it can be unwoven. Oracle of Lost Causes is essential reading for our times."--Amy Murrell Taylor, author of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps , winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, "The author has researched his story deeply, and he tells it well."--Gerard Helferich, Wall Street Journal, "In John Newman Edwards, Missouri's notorious Civil War guerrillas found their Boswell. The former cavalryman, romantic reactionary, and wire-pulling editor Confederatized them, most notably the outlaws Jesse James and William Quantrill, into ironic avatars for the Southern Lost Cause in the postwar West. In this sparkling and overdue biography, Matthew Hulbert has at last offered the Bushwhackers' Boswell, and for us, his own."--Christopher Phillips, author of The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border, "In John Newman Edwards, Missouri's notorious Civil War guerrillas found their Boswell. The former cavalryman, romantic reactionary, and wire-pulling editor Confederatized them, most notably the outlaws Jesse James and William Quantrill, into ironic avatars for the Southern Lost Cause in the postwar West. In this sparkling and overdue biography, Matthew Hulbert has at last offered the Bushwhackers' Boswell, and us, his own."--Christopher Phillips, author of The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border, "Hulbert uncovers distinctive details and lesser-known perspectives on the Civil War. Midwestern history buffs, take note."-- Publishers Weekly, "The life of John Newman Edwards defies belief. Florid, romantic, and intoxicated by barbarity, he championed the Old South in the quintessential border state, helping former Confederates gain power before he drank himself to death. In Matthew Hulbert's capable hands, Edwards's extraordinary story brings into focus the conflicts that made modern America, in a region that defies definition."--T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon, "Hulbert provides a fine example to scholars of how to produce entertaining and productive scholarship."-- Emerging Civil War, "A worthy addition to the shelves of readers of Civil War history and the post-Civil War Western frontier."--Johnny D. Boggs, Roundup Magazine
Dewey Decimal
977.803092
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Preface: Coming of Age in an Age of Crisis Introduction: A Man at War with the World 1: Into the Forge 2: A Brigade of Iron 3: The Costs of Valor 4: In Quest of Camelot 5: War by Other Means 6: Architect 7: The Ghost and the Monster Epilogue: Fallen Prince Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
Synopsis
Oracle of Lost Causes tells the life story of John Newman Edwards, a Confederate soldier and political journalist perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him, who sought to weaponize the memory of Confederate defeat., Finalist for the 2024 Spur Award John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him. From the sectional crisis of his boyhood and the battlefields of the western borderlands to the final days of the Second Mexican Empire and then back to a United States profoundly changed by the Civil War, Oracle of Lost Causes chronicles Edwards's lifelong quest to preserve a mythical version of the Old World--replete with aristocrats, knights, damsels, and slaves--in North America. This odyssey through nineteenth-century American politics and culture involved the likes of guerrilla chieftains William Clarke Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, notorious outlaws Frank and Jesse James, Confederate general Joseph Orville Shelby, and even Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Charlotte of Mexico. It is the story of a man who experienced Confederate defeat not once but twice, and how he sought to shape and weaponize the memory of those grievous losses. Historian Matthew Christopher Hulbert ultimately reveals how the Civil War determined not only the future of the vast West but also the extent to which the conflict was part of a broader, international sequence of sociopolitical uprisings.
LC Classification Number
F466.E26H85 2023
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