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...holy warrior, a man of courtly manners who is possessed by a vision of a vainglorious, straight-ahead assault on the enemy's center -- the vision that produced Pickett's disastrous charge. It was a course of action that defied reason (personified here by Lieutenant General James Longstreet, who is underwritten and underplayed by Tom Berenger). Lee's opposite number in the film's dramatic scheme is Colonel Chamberlain, commander of a ravaged regiment assigned to defend the Union flank on the hill known as Little Round Top. A college professor and, as played by Jeff Daniels, a soft-spoken...
Silent Lies By M.L. Malcolm Longstreet Press...
...should be dealt with accordingly by the law. Anyone who "sneaks" the Ten Commandments into the rotunda of a courthouse under the cover of night is not standing up for what he believes in. He's breaking the law and being a coward about it at that. Antoinette Longstreet Burlington...
...turned on Imus in the Morning last Wednesday to find two middle-aged men on the verge of tears. Hamilton Jordan, the wunderkind behind the Carter presidency and the youngest chief of staff in history, was in the studio to promote No Such Thing As a Bad Day (Longstreet Press; $22). It's a book about his glory days in the White House and his inglorious ones, including the time he was falsely accused of snorting cocaine at Studio 54 and insulting the wife of the Egyptian ambassador by admiring her pyramids. But it is mostly a book about being...
General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Contorversial Soldier is a valuable text for understanding the military leadership of the Civil War. Because the book dose not discuss much of the military and political developments that did not involve Longstreet of his armies, it requires at least a basic prior knowledge of the broader context. But the balance and insight it provides make it an important tool for understanding one of the great unknowns of American history...