Elizabeth R. Varon on Longstreet

On November 21, 2023 we hosted a special date-of-release event for Dr. Elizabeth Varon for her new biography Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South. Dr. Varon discusses the life of James Longstreet with Bjorn Skaptason of Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.

[@halkahn5035]

Excellent interview.

[@therealtoni]

Great talk! Thank you for opening to the public so everyone can access. gotta get the book now!!

[@ncarmstron]

Our book club selection this month-thanks to me! Longstreet fascinates me because he was written out of my 50s and 60s Virginia history lessons by white southerner historians. When he showed up as a central figure in Killer Angels I had no idea who he was.

[@BryanWiedeman]

Longstreet was so terrible to everyone except to Lee...the Longstreet hate is so bizarre

[@mattpiepenburg8769]

Longstreet simply fascinates me at so many levels. A combination of so many experiences, skills, humors, pains and courage. Deeply misunderstood but beloved. Tragic he has been forgotten by the modern mind.

[@HistoricWrath]

This was a fantastic conversation.