Description

Madison Books [Published Date: 1996]. Soft cover, 501 pp. Reprint edition. In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Light soiling to fore-edge of text block. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] The passion of Robert E. Lee and the puritan streak in cavalier J. E. B. Stuart are only two of the surprises in Alf J. Mapp, Jr.'s, highly regarded psychological analysis of Confederate military and political leaders. In this beautifully written book, Mapp also brings to life the defensively genteel Jefferson Davis, the paradoxically bold retreater Joseph E. Johnston, the amazingly transformed "Stonewall" Jackson, and the mysterious and astonishingly durable Judah P. Benjamin. Mapp's first-rate scholarship, fresh insights, and exciting prose have made Frock Coats and Epaidets essential reading for several generations of historians and readers interested in the Civil War. Revised and with a new introduction and updated bibliography, Mapp's classic study of the men who led the Confederate rebellion against the United States will appeal to a whole new generation of Americans.