{"product_id":"9780807165027","title":"God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the                 \"Lost Cause\" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General                 Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from the                 first generation of former Confederates to more recent times, when the Lost Cause                 has continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regional                 culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthern writers from the Confederate period through the                 southern renascence and into the 1970s fostered the Lost Cause, creating an image of                 the South that was at once romantic and tragic. By examining the work of these                 writers, Thomas Connelly and Barbara Bellows explain why the nation embraced this                 image and outline the evolution of the Lost Cause mentality from its origins in the                 South's surrender to its role in a century long national expression of defeat that                 extended from 1865 through the Vietnam War. As Connelly and Bellows demonstrate, the                 Lost Cause was a realization of mortality in an American world striving for                 perfection, an admission of failure juxtaposed against a national faith in                 success.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107269492976,"sku":"9780807165027","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807165027_p0.jpg?v=1763739720","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807165027","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}