`Rebel' shoots down James' romantic image.(Arts and Lifestyle)

From: The Boston Herald | Date: October 20, 2002| Author: Miller, Roger K. | Copyright information

Byline: Roger K. Miller

"Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" by T.J. Stiles. (Knopf, $27.50).

T.J. Stiles' "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" strips away any romantic Robin Hood remnants that may still cling to Jesse and Frank James, Cole Younger and his brothers, and their partners in crime.

Stiles sees Jesse James as a significant political figure and his gang as terrorists in the cause of the South. Though that probably is not as ...

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