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Searching for Stonewall Jackson - A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America (Hardcover)
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Searching for Stonewall Jackson - A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America (Hardcover)
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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.
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