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Title: Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie by T. Michael Parrish ISBN: 0-8078-2032-6 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: August, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: A solid, scholarly effort
Comment: This is a highly readable yet scholarly treatment of an important nineteenth century Southerner. Dick Taylor, son of President Zachary Taylor, was a Yale-educated aristocrat and Louisiana sugar plantation owner when the Civil War broke out. By war's end he was a Lieutenant General. Although he had no pre-war military training, he became one of the Confederacy's most able commanders. Parrish expertly covers Taylor's entire life, but naturally focuses on the Civil War exploits. In addition to being an excellent strategist and tactician, Taylor was colorful, self-confident, oblivious to what others thought of him, and a lifelong practitioner of noblesse oblige. Parrish is clearly enamored of his subject, but this does not stop him from critically examining the contradictions and hypocrisies inherent in Taylor's worldview. The book is free of the anachronisms and politically correct jargon which mar so much recent American historical scholarship.

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