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| | Amazon.com: Books: Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy by R. |
 | | Lee, of course, was a great commander, but he never pretended to be perfect, and Longstreet, in daring to criticize certain aspects of Lee's tactical operations, became a threat to a post-war mythology, the cult of Lee, that became so important in building a post-war, Solid Democratic South and white supremacist post-Confederate Southern identity. |
 | | As Piston demonstrates, the post-war Lost Cause mythology, in deifying the defeated Lee, required a scapegoat, a "Judas", upon whom the blame for defeat and humiliation could be heaped. |
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