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Duane Schultz is the author of two novels and eight nonfiction histories, including Over The Earth I Come (a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year). He is an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of South Florida, and lives in Clearwater, Florida.
"Quantrill's War emerges as a salute to turn-of-the-century conventional wisdom and psycho-historical analysis." --The Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Schultz extends his catalog of richly detailed, well-written histories with this life of Quantrill, who emerges less as a psychopath than as a soldier bent on bringing total destruction to his enemy." --Kirkus Reviews "Schultz retells Quantrill's life with dramatic flourish--his re-creation of the Lawrence, Kansas, massacre and of the pursuit of Quantrill by scattered Union forces is particularly exciting. Readers interested in the dark side of the Civil War will find much to ponder." --Publishers Weekly
Schultz (Glory Enough for All, St. Martin's, 1993) here gives us a major biography of Captain Quantrill, who has not been the subject of a serious study in 40 years. Quantrill and his band, including names later famous in the West, such as Cole Younger and Frank and Jesse James, fought as irregular guerrillas in Missouri and Kansas. While it is doubtful that Quantrill did indeed torture small animals as a boy in Ohio, as Schultz claims, there is no question he was a butcher, as Schultz's excellent account of the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, shows. Yet for all his brutality, and the fact that Quantrill fought for no cause but his own, he served the Southern Cause well by tying up thousands of Federal troops employed in his pursuit. Essential for both Civil War and Western collections. [For another look at Quanrtill, see Edward E. Leslie's The Devil Knows How To Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders, LJ 9/1/96.‘Ed.]‘Robert A. Curtis, Taylor Memorial P.L., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
"Quantrill's War emerges as a salute to turn-of-the-century conventional wisdom and psycho-historical analysis." --The Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Schultz extends his catalog of richly detailed, well-written histories with this life of Quantrill, who emerges less as a psychopath than as a soldier bent on bringing total destruction to his enemy." --Kirkus Reviews "Schultz retells Quantrill's life with dramatic flourish--his re-creation of the Lawrence, Kansas, massacre and of the pursuit of Quantrill by scattered Union forces is particularly exciting. Readers interested in the dark side of the Civil War will find much to ponder." --Publishers Weekly
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