Jerome Loving

This book, on the surface, looks like a much better book than it really is. While it was a good micro biography it was repetitive. If the book had been properly edited, it would have been an article instead of a whole book. He mentions, quotes or rephrases the same story in (what seems like) every chapter in the book. While the story, "The Private History of a Compaign That Failed" is a great addition to all the Civil War, you can only read the same story so many times before becoming bored. show more While I will loan this book out, I cannot recommend it show less

Literary bio suggests how Twain's life was reflected in his writing, from cub reporting to grumpy-old-man autobiography. Reads like a serial novel.

I received this book through Goodreads giveaway program.
I found this book overall to be an easy read, although it is a little disjointed, resulting in some redundancy. It gives a feeling like someone's telling you an interesting story, and they want to make sure they get all these little points in. They manage to do so, but not in order so a little backstory comes along with it each time.
The other feeling I was given, especially at the end, was of incompleteness. Yes, this is only about the show more relationship between the two, but it acknowledges it gleaned information from other cited books, and you almost feel like you wished you picked them up first. Or having pictures of Adan's wife, but barely 2 sentences about her. A photo of Christopher Walken and then only stated that he and Susan Sarandon watched the trial, but not much else about the sensationalism created during the trial, only reviewers that were scrambling.
Yes, I did learn a few new things in the book. Yes, it gave me avenues to pursue if I wanted to learn more. It's a great overview of all that can go wrong when people are being played off of each other or to prove a societal point. It sticks to mainly recounting events instead of trying to interject opinions. Although what I'm left with thinking the most, in an offhand remark at the end, is boxing a sport since we don't 'play' it? show less

Loving-ly written by a man with an obvious grasp of the enigmatic Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), “Confederate Bushwhacker” dramatically chronicles the great American author's personal crises with his short-lived alliance with the Confederate Army and his life-long association with slavery. “Confederate Bushwhacker” is a detailed read that will be of special interest to those concerned with the more detailed ideas of a very conflicted human being.