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Book Review


Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer. By Rod Andrew Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 616 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3193-9.)
Rod Andrew Jr.'s splendid biography, Wade Hampton, adds significantly to the recent burst of scholarship on this long-overlooked leader. Andrew identifies three themes that held Hampton's long and often difficult life together: paternalism, chivalry, and, after the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, vindication of the South. While those themes will not surprise most readers, Andrew handles each with the subtlety that makes for compelling biography. Moreover, Andrew has combed tirelessly through the primary sources to produce as complete a biography of Hampton as we are likely to get. . . .
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