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Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) Hardcover – Illustrated, May 6, 2011

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Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson.
Newspaper reporters, friends, relatives, and fellow soldiers first wrote about Jackson immediately following the Civil War. Most of them, according to Hettle, used portions of their own life stories to frame that of the mythic general. Hettle argues that the legend of Jackson's rise from poverty to power was likely inspired by the rags-to-riches history of his first biographer, Robert Lewis Dabney. Dabney's own successes and Presbyterian beliefs probably shaped his account of Jackson's life as much as any factual research. Many other authors inserted personal values into their stories of Stonewall, perplexing generations of historians and writers.
Subsequent biographers contributed their own layers to Jackson's myth and eventually a composite history of the general came to exist in the popular imagination. Later writers, such as the liberal suffragist Mary Johnston, who wrote a novel about Jackson, and the literary critic Allen Tate, who penned a laudatory biography, further shaped Stonewall's myth. As recently as 2003, the film Gods and Generals, which featured Jackson as the key protagonist, affirmed the longevity and power of his image.
Impeccable research and nuanced analysis enable Hettle to use American culture and memory to reframe the Stonewall Jackson narrative and provide new ways to understand the long and contended legacy of one of the Civil War's most popular Confederate heroes.

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Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have been uneven at best and often contentious. As an occasionally eccentric and elusive college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting the famed general by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shaped our current understanding Stonewall.

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Wallace Hettle, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press; Illustrated edition (May 6, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807137812
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807137819
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches

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Wallace Hettle is a Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa, where he teaches the Civil War and Reconstruction, and courses on Mark Twain, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He is developing a primary source reader on the Confederacy.

Hettle lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa with his wife,their son, and their remarkably well-behaved cat. He is currently reading William Herndon's classic biography of Lincoln.

You can reach Wallace Hettle at wallace.hettle@uni.edu.

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D. Welker

An Important Little Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2014

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This is a fascinating, well-written, and thoroughly-researched book on an unusual topic - the creation of a legend and the changing nature of that legend over time. Though Civil War readers might be put off by the focus on Jackson's biographers and storytellers, they should stick with this work to the end. Doing so will not only reveal to Civil War readers how the myth of "Stonewall" was created and fanned by Jackson himself and his wife and friends, but you'll see how this myth has changed and survived over time. As the author readily admits, Jackson himself remains an enigma, so peering through the well-crafted image is vital to better understanding just who this great (if erratic) general really was. Even for those readers not wishing to learn more about the war, this volume offers insight into the creation of the personal myth and (indirectly) how to see past that fabricated image to uncover the truth of the subject - a skill that every modern American must develop if he or she wishes to cut through the media- and interest group-created images of our current set of leaders. Every American who wishes to know how these myths are created--and how to see through them in order to not be fooled or misled--should read this book. It's a small gem.

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Stu Camenzind

a good read

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An interesting admixture of plain, clear language and thoughtful thorough research. A diligent depiction of Stonewall Jackson as he was, examined against the progression of his mythological guise as others needed or pretended him to be.

Edit You really don't have to be a scholar to read this book, despite what other reviewers imply.

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Curtis A. Cecil

A Look at what shaps a LEGEND of a man.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2012

Well, again... another book that I reviewed that is CIVIL War in nature...
This time we are reliving the Confederacy and a man well known in both the North and South. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.

It the novel "Inventing Stonewall Jackson" by Wallace Hettle and published by LSU Press, we see a novel not looking directly at Jackson but at those who wrote his Biographies.
What was their personal bent behind their looking at Jackson? Some saw him as a stoic General, others as a Pious man. This book looks at how those biographies shaped this very private and unknown man into the legend we have today.

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Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson.
Newspaper reporters, friends, relatives, and fellow soldiers first wrote about Jackson immediately following the Civil War. Most of them, according to Hettle, used portions of their own life stories to frame that of the mythic general. Hettle argues that the legend of Jackson's rise from poverty to power was likely inspired by the rags-to-riches history of his first biographer, Robert Lewis Dabney. Dabney's own successes and Presbyterian beliefs probably shaped his account of Jackson's life as much as any factual research. Many other authors inserted personal values into their stories of Stonewall, perplexing generations of historians and writers.
Subsequent biographers contributed their own layers to Jackson's myth and eventually a composite history of the general came to exist in the popular imagination. Later writers, such as the liberal suffragist Mary Johnston, who wrote a novel about Jackson, and the literary critic Allen Tate, who penned a laudatory biography, further shaped Stonewall's myth. As recently as 2003, the film Gods and Generals, which featured Jackson as the key protagonist, affirmed the longevity and power of his image. Impeccable research and nuanced analysis enable Hettle to use American culture and memory to reframe the Stonewall Jackson narrative and provide new ways to understand the long and contended legacy of one of the Civil War's most popular Confederate heroes.
Wallace Hettle, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War.
Now, while trying to say they looked at the Bias of other authors we begin to see a bent in the writing of this author as well. While not out and in your face, the bias is that all others had it wrong. What is key is that they all saw a piece of the man. For example you put 5 people in the room to express in words an object and you will have typically at least 3 different view's.

Yet this is a very clean, clear and open look at the enigma that is General Thomas J. Jackson. I would say that it was a great read, very informative and intellectual! I would recommend it to all who seek to understand better this legend of a man.

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Sol D.

Tom Jackson, Christian Soldier

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2014

Read Robertson's "Stonewall Jackson" if you have any interest, or questions, about Thomas J. Jackson. I suggest reading a Christian Bible beforehand.

Be aware that modern Cultural Marxist "historians," trying to get you to despise Western values such as Christianity, are writing books to separate you, via criticism of beloved historical Christians, from God. If said propagandists can plant a seed of doubt about historical Christians in your mind, they figure that, via concurrent attacks on present-day Christians carried out by the propagandists' allies in other societal spheres, the tree of matured God-doubt will be effectuated in YOU. Beware. Study "Cultural Marxism" in order to be informed as you warn all you know against this evil! God bless.

Read the preceding review again, three times!

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