Matthew Christopher Hulbert

Oracle of Lost Causes

John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

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.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781496211873
• ISBN-10: 1496211871
• Artikelnr.: 66479839

Autorenporträt

Matthew Christopher Hulbert is an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the 2017 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, and coeditor of Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America.  

Inhaltsangabe

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