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JOHN BELL HOOD THE RISE, FALL, AND RESURRECTION OF A CONFEDERATE BY Stephen Hood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Savas Beatie
- Item Height
- 9.5 inches
- ISBN-10
- 1611211409
- Item Weight
- 1.45 pounds
- ISBN
- 9781611211405
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Savas Beatie
ISBN-10
1611211409
ISBN-13
9781611211405
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150552960
Product Key Features
Book Title
John Bell Hood : the Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / United States, Military
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-010919
Reviews
"John Bell Hood was one of few Confederate generals who held important commands in both Virginia and the Confederate West. Given command of the defense of Atlanta, Hood fought to hold the city but failed. He later led the army in the unsuccessful Tennessee Campaign, where he was unable to cut off Schofield's Union army at Spring Hill, was bloodily repulsed the next day at Franklin, and routed two weeks later at Nashville. Historians and writers since then have denied Hood his day in court, thus shaping a very negative opinion of the general. But Sam Hood's scholarship in John Bell Hood has shown that contemporary views of Hood were often much different from the perpetuated stereotypes. His study demonstrates anew the complexity of history and the importance of impartiality by those who write it." -, The Civil War historical community can only benefit from Sam Hood's Dedication and perseverance in presenting a full...review and strong defense of JBH's life and service. Readers will certainly understand the general better..., "The time is right for Sam Hood's book. Another way of looking at it is, my, what we have learned since the Civil War's Centennial fifty years ago." -
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
355.0092
Synopsis
John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy'smost successful generals. Hedied at 48 after a brief illness in Augustof 1879, leaving behind the first draftof his memoirs Advance and Retreat:Personal Experiences in the UnitedStates and Confederate States Armies.Published posthumously the followingyear, the memoirs immediately becameas controve, Winner, 2014, Albert Castel Book Award Winner, 2014 Walt Whitman AwardJohn Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy's most successful--and enigmatic--generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. Published posthumously the following year, the memoirs immediately became as controversial as their author. A careful and balanced examination of these "controversies," however, coupled with the recent discovery of Hood's personal papers (which were long considered lost) finally sets the record straight in John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General.Outlived by most of his critics, Hood's published version of many of the major events and controversies of his Confederate military career were met with scorn and skepticism. Some described his memoirs as nothing more than a polemic against his arch-rival Joseph E. Johnston. These unflattering opinions persisted throughout the decades and reached their nadir in 1992, when an influential author described Hood's memoirs as "merely a bitter, misleading, and highly distorted treatise" replete with "distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications." Without any personal papers to contradict them, many historians and writers portrayed Hood as an inept and dishonest opium addict and a conniving, vindictive cripple of a man. One writer went so far as to brand him "a fool with a license to kill his own men." What most readers don't know is that nearly all of these authors misused sources, ignored contrary evidence, and/or suppressed facts sympathetic to Hood.Stephen M. "Sam" Hood, a distant relative of the general, embarked on a meticulous forensic study of the common perceptions and controversies of his famous kinsman. His careful examination of the original sources utilized to create the broadly accepted "facts" about John Bell Hood uncovered startlingly poor scholarship by some of the most well-known and influential historians of the 20th and 21st centuries. These discoveries, coupled with his access to a large cache of recently discovered Hood papers--many penned by generals and other officers who served with Hood--confirm Hood's account that originally appeared in his memoir and resolve, for the first time, some of the most controversial aspects of Hood's long career."Blindly accepting historical 'truths' without vigorous challenge," cautions one historian, "is a perilous path to understanding real history." The shocking revelations in John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General will forever change our perceptions of Hood as both a man and a general, and those who set out to shape his legacy., Winner, 2014, Albert Castel Book Award Winner, 2014 Walt Whitman Award John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy's most successful--and enigmatic--generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. Published posthumously the following year, the memoirs immediately became as controversial as their author. A careful and balanced examination of these "controversies," however, coupled with the recent discovery of Hood's personal papers (which were long considered lost) finally sets the record straight in John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General.Outlived by most of his critics, Hood's published version of many of the major events and controversies of his Confederate military career were met with scorn and skepticism. Some described his memoirs as nothing more than a polemic against his arch-rival Joseph E. Johnston. These unflattering opinions persisted throughout the decades and reached their nadir in 1992, when an influential author described Hood's memoirs as "merely a bitter, misleading, and highly distorted treatise" replete with "distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications." Without any personal papers to contradict them, many historians and writers portrayed Hood as an inept and dishonest opium addict and a conniving, vindictive cripple of a man. One writer went so far as to brand him "a fool with a license to kill his own men." What most readers don't know is that nearly all of these authors misused sources, ignored contrary evidence, and/or suppressed facts sympathetic to Hood.Stephen M. "Sam" Hood, a distant relative of the general, embarked on a meticulous forensic study of the common perceptions and controversies of his famous kinsman. His careful examination of the original sources utilized to create the broadly accepted "facts" about John Bell Hood uncovered startlingly poor scholarship by some of the most well-known and influential historians of the 20th and 21st centuries. These discoveries, coupled with his access to a large cache of recently discovered Hood papers--many penned by generals and other officers who served with Hood--confirm Hood's account that originally appeared in his memoir and resolve, for the first time, some of the most controversial aspects of Hood's long career."Blindly accepting historical 'truths' without vigorous challenge," cautions one historian, "is a perilous path to understanding real history." The shocking revelations in John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General will forever change our perceptions of Hood as both a man and a general, and those who set out to shape his legacy.
LC Classification Number
E467.1.H58H66 2013
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