Jesse James

⭐ Featured Review

"A concise overview the life of Jesse James. The show does a good job of giving you the James Gang in the context of the post-Civil War period in Missouri, where bitter feelings linger about the results of the war and the economic disadvantages that the northerners imposed on the defeated South. The program also stresses that the myth of Jesse James was always more important than the facts of the real man. To further underline that point, much of the time Jesse was not in control of the narrative that was being told about him and the way he was used by the political forces in the region. Not mu..."