Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
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. This is the first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years, painting a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the American Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781407074719
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Jesse JamesAmerican Civil WarReconstruction era
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2002)
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