But with the total devotion of his generals-Longstreet, Hill, Stuart-and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster-compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Grant in command-and turns the tide of war.įor Robert E. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.Īs The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Nothing new under the (setting) sun.In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. Crypto racists always want to talk about something else. I recommend Jacey Fortins article in the New York Times Aug 19, 2017, and Inhuman Bondage by David Davis. Theres plenty of information easily accessible. Jeff gives god and Lee the social intelligence of the slaveholder maybe thats all this Tallahassee son has to give. Social intelligence is the ability to put yourself in the shoes of another. Insufficient reason and intellect? In all his conversations with the almighty, god never asks Lee how he would feel if his darling daughter Precious Life Mildred were inflammatorily raped by an overseer, or if his small children were inflammatorily taken from him and sold into slavery. Oh, really? what more? Independence, for whom? Freedom, to do what? No answer. The word slavery has four tangential references in Last Full Measure proper and one in the Introduction: There is also a great middle ground, men of reason and intellect, who now understand that there is more to this war than the inflammatory issue of slavery, or the argument over the sovereign rights of the individual states. There is a gaping hole in the books of son Jeff.

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