Paul Womack's Reviews > Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Less a biography, although it is, and more an assessment of Longstreet’s role as a southern icon, either villified or affirmed, for both his leadership in the War and his reconciliation efforts post-war. As a Southern boy, born in 1946, with a long Confererate heritage and imbued with “lost cause” mythology, I find Longstreet to be very much heroic.