Search Results: Jesse James, Last Rebel Of the Civil War by T J Stiles

New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0375405836 . 528 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 510 pages .

London England: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2003. Hardback. First Edition. Jesse James. This first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years is a meticulously researched and stylishly written reconsideration of an American icon. Stripped of the familiar myths surrounding him, Jesse James emerges as a far more signifciant figure: a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used crimes and notoriety to promote the Confederate cause during the bitter decade that folowed the South's surrender at Appomattox. The author paints a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath, both nationally and, more specifically, in the divided border state of James's Missouri. There the great issues of the day expressed themselves in battles between those who aligned themselves with North or South. Jesse and his older brother Frank, sons of a pro-slavery preacher who died in the California Gold Rush and a ferocious Southern mother, served with… Read More

Norwalk: Easton Press, 2008. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Octavo. xiv, 510 pages. Illustrations. Bound in brown leather with gilt titles, border, illustrations, and decorations on the front cover and spine. All edges gilt.