[.ca] Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims (ISBN 1581824858)

What a nice tribute to General Jackson:
I really enjoyed this book. It is a great book for people that like StoneWall, or don't have a lot of time to read. ( This is a short read). StoneWalls maxims can be used today as well. This book, also gives us a better understanding of this great American Hero. ( How hard General Jackson tried to be a perfect man, shines through, with this book. One can only admire General Jackson all the more) It is well worth the time spent reading it.

oh those contradictions!:
"you may be whatever you resolve to be," said stonewall jackson. even a supporter-in-arms of an aristocratic slave-owning minority who leads millions into savagely selfish internecine warfare? i guess that's for the individual to decide, albeit long after the fact. but isn't that what makes the study of history so thought-provoking? doesn't the search for objective truth keep us looking back through the ages to figure out more about who we were then, who we are today, and what we can become once again if we're not careful? i have to believe that, given thomas jackson's strong faith in god, it wasn't long after stonewall crossed the river and sat down to rest beneath the tree that he realized he'd made a horrible horrible decision in fighting for white supremacy and the slavery of his brothers and sisters on earth. i'm sure i'll discover regrets concerning certain decisions i've made in my life. won't we all?! still, don't be fooled by romantic recreations of the past. don't be fooled.

Self Assessment Delineated by a choice of Maxims...:
If you're seeking military maxims with applications in business or personal life... along the line of Sun Tzu... you won't find them here. Unlike Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", from which many of the maxims herein were extracted, and George Washington's hand-copied "Rules of Civility...", both of which represent selections offered up as a lesson plan for the edification of youth; Jackson's collection provides a portrait of the man himself, defined by those particular guidelines he selected as necessary to fill the gaps he perceived in his social upbringing. Jackson's well known social awkwardness and reticence in public is clearly delineated by his choices. Anyone seeking to understand Jackson will benefit from this book. However, Dr. Roberston errs by delving deeper into Chesterfield's work, and others, in seeking to add supporting text to each maxim, rather than exploring why Jackson chose it. The treasure here is not the maxim, but Jackson's selection of it.

sloppy piece of racist nonsense:
Once again, Robertson slaps together a poorly sourced work championing the slaveholding South. True to form, he neglects to mention the source of many of Jackson's maxims, Benjamin Franklin, in whose autobiography many of them can be found -- as any competent American historian would know.

sloppy hackwork:
James Robertson has eeked out a career selling rewarmed and often inaccurate anecdotes from the life and career of Stonewall Jsckson. This copy and paste job, sadly, is nothing new.