John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Language: English
Published by Savas Beatie, 2016
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- Title
- John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
- Author
- Hood, Stephen
- Publisher
- Savas Beatie
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1611213304
- ISBN 13
- 9781611213300
Outlived by most of his critics, Hood’s published version of many of the major events and controversies of his Confederate military career were met with scorn and skepticism. Some described his memoirs as nothing more than a polemic against his arch-rival Joseph E. Johnston. These unflattering opinions persisted throughout the decades and reached their nadir in 1992, when an influential author described Hood’s memoirs as “merely a bitter, misleading, and highly distorted treatise” replete with “distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications.” Without any personal papers to contradict them, many historians and writers portrayed Hood as an inept and dishonest opium addict and a conniving, vindictive cripple of a man. One writer went so far as to brand him “a fool with a license to kill his own men.” What most readers don’t know is that nearly all of these authors misused sources, ignored contrary evidence, and/or suppressed facts sympathetic to Hood.
Stephen M. “Sam” Hood, a distant relative of the general, embarked on a meticulous forensic study of the common perceptions and controversies of his famous kinsman. His careful examination of the original sources utilized to create the broadly accepted “facts” about John Bell Hood uncovered startlingly poor scholarship by some of the most well-known and influential historians of the 20th and 21st centuries. These discoveries, coupled with his access to a large cache of recently discovered Hood papers―many penned by generals and other officers who served with Hood―confirm Hood’s account that originally appeared in his memoirs and resolve, for the first time, some of the most controversial aspects of Hood’s long career.
“Blindly accepting historical ‘truths’ without vigorous challenge,” cautions one historian, “is a perilous path to understanding real history.” The shocking revelations in John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General will forever change our perceptions of Hood as both a man and a general, and those who set out to shape his legacy.
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