John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory

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John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory is written by Brian Craig Miller and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1572337028 (ISBN 10) and 9781572337022 (ISBN 13).

"In this first biography of the general in more than twenty years, Miller offers a new original perspective, directly challenging those historians who have pointed to Hood's perceived personality flaws, his alleged abuse of painkillers, and other unsubstantiated claims as proof of his incompetence as a military leader. This book takes into account Hood's entire life -- as a student at West Point, his meteoric rise and fall as a soldier and Civil War commander, and his career as a successful postwar businessman. In many ways, Hood represents a typical southern man, consumed by personal and societal definitions of manhood that were threatened by amputation and preserved and reconstructed by Civil War memory. Miller consults an extensive variety of sources, explaining not only what Hood did but also the environment in which he lived and how it affected him"--Jacket.