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"So carefully researched, persuasive, and illuminating that it is likely to reshape permanently our understanding of its subject's life and times." —The New York Times Book Review"After reading this biography . . . can doubt that the driving force of Jesse James's career was persistent Confederate ideology and loyalty. . . . [Stiles writes] vigorously, eloquently, persuasively." —James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books"Intricate, far-reaching. . . . A fascinating revisionist biography.” —TheNew York Times"In this excellent account, T.J. Stiles shows James to be a southerner, not a westerner; a Confederate, not a cowboy. . . . [He] masterfully strips James bare." —The Economist“Elegantly rendered and compelling.” —Jay Winik, Washington Post Book World"Stiles has combed a wealth of contemporary sources and imbues this story with the drama it deserves.” —Eric Foner, Los Angeles Times“[A] bold, myth-bashing account of the brutal life and times of the outlaw-icon.” —Boston Globe"Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life. . . . When Stiles, in his subtitle, calls Jesse James the ‘last rebel fo the Civil War; he correctly definies the theme that ruled Jesse’s life." —Larry McMurtry, The New Republic“A fascinating challnge to old legends.” —The Dallas Morning News“A dazzling work of American history. . . . James emerges, stripped of his Robin Hood folk mythology, as a more complex and pivotal figure than earlier histories have allowed.” —Sunday Times [London]“Arresting and powerful.” —The Richmond-Times Dispatch "This gripping biography of one of the most famous American outlaws clarifies the development of modern violence and proves that the simplistic Jesse James of western movies fall far short of the historical mark." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Perhaps the finest book ever written about this American legend.” —Salon.com“The book is quite simply outstanding. . . . [Stiles is] a writer whose allegiance is not with the easy and obvious but with the subtle and definiantly humane.” —Guardian"As gracefully written as a novel, and convincingly argued throughout, this is biography at its finest." —Bookpage"Stiles spent four years examining James’s deadliest weapon: his politics. . . . James emerges as no mere robber, but as a proslavery 'terrorist' who remains wildly misunderstood." —Time Out“In hard-eyed, exhilaratingly physcial language . . . T. J. Stiles takes us beyond the usual interpretation of the outlaw’s notorious life and into a far more challenging understanding of the man.” —The Bloomsbury Review “Wonderful. . . . An important new biography.” —John Mack Faragher, Raleigh News & Observer
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In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Misssouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates' bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause--in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.
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Product details
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 8th edition (October 28, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375705589
ISBN-13: 978-0375705588
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
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Really great read!Two things other reviewers beat around the bush about but don't state exactly.The main one is that by the end of the Civil War Jesse was only 16 and had never really been away from home. By today's standards, his family would be the equivalent of the upper-middle-class, living and working in the rural areas of America. That he was from the southern culture is the key. The fact that his family owned 6 or 7 slaves, tragic, but it really had only a minor or no impact on his thinking as aside from one man, the rest of the slaves were working inside the house on domestic work (probably about a 1,000 sq ft. common house of the era), not in the fields. As a 16-year-old it was not his view of economics, it was his environment - a bad, bad example, but what he knew of life.There was nothing documented about his using white-supremest language, though others were quoted with those type statements, occasionally. The thing that is being missed is that his family and friends were all doing financially okay, from his viewpoint. Then, as is well brought out, as the war ended and his culture was turned upside down as were the many, many families and friends lives. There were no plantations in Western Missouri. Just some families had some slaves, not thousands of slaves. And, it was a culture of people that had done okay with the southern culture who were now economically and politically, effectively imprisoned after the war. Many were governmentally mandated to leave their properties and disappear elsewhere in a couple of weeks or go to jail, and on and on. Their culture, wrong as it had been, was nearly half of the population of the US and were then treated as war criminals after the war, particularly in Western Missouri by Missouri's politics and law, different from the Federal handling of the ex-confederate states.Jesse, was vastly more impacted by the government overriding his Bill of Rights-rights than the loss of the Southern slave-owning economy. Most others in that Little Dixie culture of Western Missouri 'served' their 'sentences' in one way or another and became just regular citizens of the US, Western Missouri, again in 15 or 20 years, and went on with life. Even his older brother Frank worked for years in Kentucky during the late 1870s and through the 1880s as practically a lone white man amongst black workers harvesting trees, on the same labor level, and had no disagreements about it.But Jesse, between his intelligence and his very social, engaging, out-going and likable personality, became the voice of the angst against government overriding his and the other's Constitutional rights. Unfortunately, after he had effectively played a large part in correcting those wrongs and the 'chains' on the earlier secessionists were gone, Jessie didn't know how to live a 'normal' life.The other point is that after Jesse was gone, a deserved but wrongly rendered death, none of his friends and family or even most of his antagonists stood out in society more than just regular people in any-town, any-state in America. It just makes the statement that as wrong as he was, even though he did accomplish the political end he was after, he truly was an outstanding person to have effectively created, and he intentionally did, the persona that we still associate with the name Jesse James.There is a huge huge amount of documentation that T.J. Stiles cross-collated and filter truth from exaggeration, poor memory recountings, etc., at the end of the book, discrepancies being noted on those that were not included, etc.So, if you want the best understanding of who, what, when, where, and how of the life and times of Jesse James, including the social/economic/political/environmental aspects of his life, I highly recommend this book. I am sure you'll be greatly enlightened. It is a story and not a fact-fest.(BTW I have had many, great friends and work associates who were ultimately descended from the pre-Civil War era slaves, that I hold as great examples of how in America if you want something you can get it regardless of personal circumstances or handicaps. They are my fellow Americans regardless of ancestry.)
An excellent work! Mr. Stiles sets the scene in MIssouri in a thorough, clear and interesting way. By the time you get to Jesse, you know the history of the culture and the specific family that created him. You know his mentors in the vicious bushwhacker gangs and how he was shaped from a young age in what was, essentially, what we would call "death squads" today.A superb job of giving you and understanding of why Jesse, of all the ex-guerillas turned outlaw, became so famous. Why his support with MIssourians grew, reached and apogee, then declined.Interestingly written. I highly recommend this book.
Very possibly the best book I've read in years. I love to read history. I haven't read a lot recently about American history though, especially Civil War history. This book brought that era alive for me on so many levels, I can't adequately describe it. Until now, it's been impossible for me to imagine living at ground zero in a war, especially a civil war. The hell of it that I felt in this book brought it home. I couldn't put it down, literally and figuratively. Read this book. You won't forget the experience.
After looking for a biography and in-depth look into the life of Jesse Woodson James, look no further than this one. Stiles paints a fantastic portrait of 19th century America, locked in a turbulent struggle with itself. Out of this conflict comes an opportunist, Jesse W. James who uses the Civil War as a springboard to fame and cementing his legacy as one of the greatest and cerberal outlaws of all time.Gritty, thorough, and insightful, Stile's book is a fabulous look into the turbulent times of the 1860's,70's,80's from the perspective of the State of MO.
So much information presented that I had never before heard or considered. The implications of the Civil War and slavery in the makeup of Jesse James and his family; the divide in Missouri over the same issues - Civil War and slavery; the ruthlessness and blood-thirsty ways of this particular rebel is well written and presented.
"Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" is the best work on James that I've seen to date. It includes details about his early life that I've never seen anywhere else. It also discusses the war years thoroughly. I liked the ties into the politics of the time and James's involvement in them. The narrative is very well written, and it flows so well that I was sorry to close it at the end. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I think this is the best book written on Jesse James.The research is well documented in the 69 pages of notes in the back. It relies heavily on contemporary news accounts and the Official Record of the Civil War, and delves deeply into the James myth and how he helped create it. T. J. Stiles is a good writer, and I recommend this book to anyone with even a passing interest in: Civil War Missouri, bushwhackers, the James brothers, or the outlaw period in Missouri. You will not be disappointed.
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