Reviews/Endorsements:
"An exceptional book about an exceptional man."
-- Southern Partisan
"Wade Hampton has been one of the most overlooked figures in American biography, though he played a major role as both soldier and statesman through a long part of the nineteenth century. We now have the book that has been needed. Comprehensively researched and vividly written, Walter Brian Cisco's biography is definitive. It also provides a stimulating and original view of many almost-forgotten aspects of American life in the Civil War era."
-- Clyde N. Wilson, professor of history, University of South Carolina
"Walter Brian Cisco's Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman is an extremely well-researched and well-written treatment of Wade Hampton's life that details both his triumphs on the battlefield as well as his greatest achievements in the political arena. Hampton fought like a lion for Confederate independence, and once the war was over, he fought even harder to bring peace and civil rights to the postwar South."
-- Eric J. Wittenberg, author of The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863
"Unlike previous biographers, Walter Brian Cisco does not engage in hero worship, but shows Hampton as a flesh-and-blood man. . . . Cisco has produced the most balanced account of this often-overlooked Palmetto State icon. For those unfamiliar with the general, this book will be an eye-opener."
-- Blue & Gray Magazine
"Walter Brian Cisco has not ony produced a penetrating and well-researched volume, he has managed to capture the essential dichotomy of American life in the mid to late nineteenth century. And he has done so with a certain panache and sympathy seldom exhibited in this day of 'political correctness.'"
-- California Literary Review
"A comprehensively researched, highly readable, and long-overdue treatment of a man whose military and political careers significantly impacted not only south Carolina but America."
-- Sandlapper: The Magazine of South Carolina
"A remarkably well-researched and readable treatise."
-- The Civil War Courier
"Walter B. Cisco's new biography of Wade Hampton fills a void in the historiography of the War Between the States . . . . a well researched book that is an enjoyable read."
-- Thomas D. Perry, Civil War Book Review
"Cisco clearly sets out to produce an exhaustively detailed portrait of Hampton, and in this regard he has succeeded handsomely."
-- Civil War History, Volume 53, #1 (March 2007)
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