civil war and stonewall jackson.from what you heard from the panel or if you have any questions for this author 202 is the already -- area code 748-8200 eastern and central timezones 848201 and we are live from the university of arizona where the tucson book festival is held. it's a beautiful day out here in tucson. unfortunately we are inside but fortunately we have some very interesting authors that are taking your calls. we have got a couple more hours of programming to go today and we will be light again tomorrow. you can get updates at @booktv on our twitter feed or you can go to our web site, booktv.org and you can see the full schedule there as well. joining us is s.c. gwynne. here is his book. let's show you the cover. it's a pretty dramatic cover "rebel yell," the violence and redemption of stonewall jackson. mr. gwynne first of all what was it like to research as stonewall jackson? i the archives wherever you went pretty good? >> the civil war, have to say the civil war suffers from no shortage of data a br

or even may 10, the anniversary of the death of stonewall jackson. this is a declaration day that does not stop. perhaps the most compelling history that david white lays out for us is the furious efforts across the south to move from the ephemeral, the laying of flowers, to the permanent more white authored memorials of stone pyramids, statues of confederate leaders. the parade that associated themselves with a founding and the installation of them could hardly remain separate. it is in that moment that we see so many african-american veterans, members of the united states colored troops deemed not only a bothersome detail in terms of crowd control but "any evidence of african-american soldiers were to force whites to show their consequence." white southerners insisted that any hint of african-american presence would be an indignity to the memory of man like stonewall jackson. "as an insult to the confederacy." it's no surprise that were david and other historians have documented as they lost cause platform, that in this white and sphere, neither bl

civil war and stonewall jackson.from what you heard from the panel or if you have any questions for this author 202 is the already -- area code 748-8200 eastern and central timezones 848201 and we are live from the university of arizona where the tucson book festival is held. it's a beautiful day out here in tucson. unfortunately we are inside but fortunately we have some very interesting authors that are taking your calls. we have got a couple more hours of programming to go today and we will be light again tomorrow. you can get updates at @booktv on our twitter feed or you can go to our web site, booktv.org and you can see the full schedule there as well. joining us is s.c. gwynne. here is his book. let's show you the cover. it's a pretty dramatic cover "rebel yell," the violence and redemption of stonewall jackson. mr. gwynne first of all what was it like to research as stonewall jackson? i the archives wherever you went pretty good? >> the civil war, have to say the civil war suffers from no shortage of data a br

i we will go out of my way to persuade you that stonewall jackson was secretly a passionate 19th-century romantic with an abrasive nature and beauty. i we will argue that.and make you believe it. [applause] >> every weekend book tv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more here on c-span2, and watch any of our past programs online at c-span.org. after one now. >> host: now joining us on book tv's politics professor at princeton melissa lane who has written a new book called "the birth of politics: eight greeks and roman political ideas and why they matter". professor, professor where the greeks and romans successful politicians? >> they managed to develop the 1st democracy in athens producing works of art, literature, and political institutions. voting for example, which will make -- remains fundamental to politics today. the romans a republic for 500 years and and an empire for about another 500 years. depending upon your measure of success they have a lot to offer. >> host: what were some of the similarities? >> guest: that is an interesting que

a way to communicate to someone why the comanches were important in american history or why stonewall jacksonwas important to the confederacy or how he affected the war. there there are still plenty of ideas inside of this but it is not -- there is no overarching single idea that you are arguing. and i think that that is the difference between me and many people who write books that we would call academic books. the differences are exaggerated. my favorite historian's is william manchester. he wrote the two-volume peace on churchill. i am stumbling and fumbling. >> i think it i think it is a false dichotomy. i do not think it is either or. it is all the above. i do not think that narrative should replace traditional academic writing. it writing. it should be one kind of tool in the arsenal of how to teach and read and enjoy history. and like i say the tectonic plates were not shift. it will be okay. a lot of academic departments seem to fear it think it is subversive. and they and they may go home at night and read his book. [laughter] >> the argument made between candor and story. that is a

there was a strong appeal by a theology professor who had been on the stonewall jackson staff to get some people from this area to go to brazil as confederados. he made an especially strong appeal to mrs. thornton, who lived over here on beech street because her husband had been killed at sharpsburg. lee visited her home in farmville. but she had 4 young boys. he said they had their best chance to get out of here and go to brazil. the local minister told him to leave parishioners alone. the reality is that southern presbyterian denomination opened up a foreign mission field in brazil but it was really to be a chaplaincy outreach to our kind of people there. professor clabough: thank you. >> i had a quick question. do you think the majority of the people left for political reasons? not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it economics, perhaps hoping to establish a slave institution in brazil or elsewhere? do you have information about the states that they were more likely to have left? deep south like alabama or mississippi or upper south? i would think it would be deep south but

cattrall, custis lee, said barton -- seth barton and confederate army who was in charge of stonewall jackson's artillery and wounded in the battle of chancellorsville with the general theory of people be killed and that assault. buried on the battlefield. with the counterattack taking place along the creek one of the confederate soldiers in the battle mentioned in the final part of the battle says quicker than i could tell it, the battle degenerated into a butchery of brutal personal conflicts. others lost their weapons and used teeth to bite noses and the terrible couple. one of the union soldiers that if you come out of the parking will be introduced to, his name was samuel a, 37 massachusetts. they had particular advance weapon called the dispenser rifle that could fire and cartridge rounds without reloading. in the final attack, it easy the confederate army government toward him and they moved forward to receive this render when the confederate officer decided he is not going to surrender, drop the flag, pulled pistol out and shoots entertain bradley through the side. no sooner did he do t

personality of holding things in and being in control and being overwhelmed with the loss of stonewall jackson just before had anything to do with his poor decision making? >> well lee certainly looks back at gettysburg and has never given explanations for why gettysburg has failed. he says he's not getting good intelligence because jeb stewart has disappeared. jeb stewart as some of you know lee's cavalry commander and he goes on, basically a joyride before gettysburg, and lee relies on him for intelligence. he believes his corps commanders don't act in unison and even picket's charge could have succeeded if they had proper artillery support but no one told him they were running low after that initial bombardment. he does feel that he's running out of time, he has to destroy the union army. and if you go back actually to chancellorsville -- i mentioned this earlier -- and you look at robert e. lee's attitude after of the battle of chancellorsville, he's furious that joseph hooker manages to escape. and the final position was a pretty strong position x robert e. lee was planning to run a front

against the supreme court an historian gwen will be with us to talk about the civil war and stonewall jackson. all this, many more panels follow us on twitter,@book tv to get updates or find the full schedule at book of.org. >> good morning. my name is jim cornell. i'm the president of the international science writer association and a member of the science book committee of this the seventh annual tucson festival of books and i welcome you all here this morning. this morning's presentation the accidental universe is sponsored by cox communication and by the u of a wildcat corps, part of americorp. i you want to become a friend of the fifth festival your tax deductible contributions can help us make this a free event for all the anymore so-arizona and contribute on the literacy programs in this part of the state. be sure to pick up -- you can find information about the friends, how to become a friend online, or you can go to an information booth on the mall. the mall will also be the site for book-signing but our author today. just outside the front door here. you take a right as you go out t

personality of holding things in and being in control and being overwhelmed with the loss of stonewall jacksonand -- [inaudible] just before had anything to do with his poor decision making? >> well, lee certainly looks back at gettysburg and has a number of different explanations for why gettysburg fails, he says. he's not getting good intelligence because jeb stewart has disappeared. jeb stewart, as some of you know lee's cavalry commander, and he goes on -- basically what's a joyride before gettysburg, and lee relies on jeb stewart for intelligence. he believes his corps commanders don't act in unison, and he believes even at pickett's charge maybe it could have succeeded, but no one told him they were running low on artillery. i think it's a moment of frustration for lee. he does feel he's running out of time, he has to destroy the union army. and if you go back actually, to chancellorsville -- i mentioned this earlier -- and you look at robert e. lee's attitude after the battle of chancellorsville, he is furious. he's furious that joseph hooker, who's then a union general, manages to esca

fc flynn, rebel yell the violence, passion and redemption of stonewall jackson. [applause] not pilgrimage of the flash. debbie debbie norton. ian mcnabb and literature a life of james laughlin, publisher for our strauss andrew. [applause] mary ann powell, the crusades of cesar chavez, a biography. william sperry. [applause] the recipient of this year's national book critic biography prize is john mayer [applause] and i'll read the citation. john mayer brings fiber opposed on a critic ackerman to his biography of one of the grace of the 20th century american theater. they must be in theatrical strokes. his is not a scholar, a dry biography by a deep reading of the notebooks as well as interviews with friends and collaborators is a gloriously flourish subtitle. the words are williamstown suggests williams, the useful quest of knowledge, the blur of alcohol and jackson at later years the book is that hard a psychological study probing how the playwright refashion his life experience is and psychological states into great dramatic works such as the glass menagerie, a