Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Hulbert, Matthew Christopher

ISBN 10: 1496211871 / ISBN 13: 9781496211873

Verlag: Bison Books, 2023

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Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War. Hulbert, Matthew Christopher. Bison Books, 2023. 317p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket bumped/scuffed/shelfwear/creased spine end, rippled bottom back dj, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, minor bumping on bottom of pages, NOT xlib 9.00.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1729279843112

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1496211871
• ISBN-13: 9781496211873
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • U.S GOVERNMENT/POLITICS/HISTORY

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Finalist for the 2024 Spur Award

John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him. From the sectional crisis of his boyhood and the battlefields of the western borderlands to the final days of the Second Mexican Empire and then back to a United States profoundly changed by the Civil War, Oracle of Lost Causes chronicles Edwards’s lifelong quest to preserve a mythical version of the Old World-replete with aristocrats, knights, damsels, and slaves-in North America.

This odyssey through nineteenth-century American politics and culture involved the likes of guerrilla chieftains William Clarke Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson, notorious outlaws Frank and Jesse James, Confederate general Joseph Orville Shelby, and even Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Charlotte of Mexico. It is the story of a man who experienced Confederate defeat not once but twice, and how he sought to shape and weaponize the memory of those grievous losses. Historian Matthew Christopher Hulbert ultimately reveals how the Civil War determined not only the future of the vast West but also the extent to which the conflict was part of a broader, international sequence of sociopolitical uprisings.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.