Cleary Ben
Cleary Ben - Searching For Stonewall Jackson A Quest For Legacy In A Divided America - Hardcover
Cleary Ben - Searching For Stonewall Jackson A Quest For Legacy In A Divided America - Hardcover
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Description: Thomas Jonathan " Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He was a slave owner who fought and died at least in part to perpetuate slavery yet he founded an African - American Sunday School and personally taught classes for almost a decade. For all his sternness and rigidity Jackson was a deeply thoughtful and incredibly intelligent man. But his reputation and mythic status then and now was due to more than combat success. In a deeply religious age he was revered for a piety that was far beyond the norm. How did one man meld his religion with the institution of slavery? How did he reconcile it with the business of killing at which he so excelled? In Searching FOR Stonewall Jackson historian Ben Cleary examines not only Jackson's life but his own contemplating what it means to be a white Southerner in the 21st century. Now as statues commemorating the Civil War are toppled and Confederate flags come down Cleary walks the famous battlefields following in the footsteps of his subject as he questions the legacy of Stonewall Jackson and the South's Lost Cause at a time when the contentions of politics civil rights and social justice are at a fever pitch. Combining nuanced authoritative research with deeply personal stories of life in the modern American South Searching FOR Stonewall Jackson is a thrilling vivid portrait of a soldier a war and a country still contending with its past.
Title: Searching For Stonewall Jackson A Quest For Legacy In A Divided America
Author(s): Cleary Ben
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9781455535804
Pages: 384 Pages, 1 8-Pg Color Insert
Publication Date: 7/16/2019
Category: American Civil War
Description: Thomas Jonathan " Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He was a slave owner who fought and died at least in part to perpetuate slavery yet he founded an African - American Sunday School and personally taught classes for almost a decade. For all his sternness and rigidity Jackson was a deeply thoughtful and incredibly intelligent man. But his reputation and mythic status then and now was due to more than combat success. In a deeply religious age he was revered for a piety that was far beyond the norm. How did one man meld his religion with the institution of slavery? How did he reconcile it with the business of killing at which he so excelled? In Searching FOR Stonewall Jackson historian Ben Cleary examines not only Jackson's life but his own contemplating what it means to be a white Southerner in the 21st century. Now as statues commemorating the Civil War are toppled and Confederate flags come down Cleary walks the famous battlefields following in the footsteps of his subject as he questions the legacy of Stonewall Jackson and the South's Lost Cause at a time when the contentions of politics civil rights and social justice are at a fever pitch. Combining nuanced authoritative research with deeply personal stories of life in the modern American South Searching FOR Stonewall Jackson is a thrilling vivid portrait of a soldier a war and a country still contending with its past.
Title: Searching For Stonewall Jackson A Quest For Legacy In A Divided America
Author(s): Cleary Ben
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9781455535804
Pages: 384 Pages, 1 8-Pg Color Insert
Publication Date: 7/16/2019
Category: American Civil War
