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Grant: The Making of a Legendary Military Leader

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From the New York Times best-selling historian, a portrait of one of America’s most storied military leaders.

As general of the Union army and president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced problems as grave and demanding as any in the life of the nation: civil war, an ultimately thwarted project of Reconstruction, the early years of the sordid Gilded Age, and the battle for African American rights and freedom. But in life and in death, the general’s standing has been gradually diminished by false conceptions and harsh criticism, from rumors of his alcoholism to his reputation as a cutthroat, abrasive leader.

Focusing on his greatest military achievement in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Grant offers fresh insight into a man whose life was marked by the extremes of achievement and tragedy, from the heights of Civil War success to the depths of public ire and extreme poverty. Renowned Civil War historian James Lee McDonough shows how Grant overcame military and civilian havoc, the perils of vast enemy territory, increasing political pressure from Washington, and a seemingly unending series of setbacks to reopen the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. Alongside the Union victory and a Civil War campaign without parallel, McDonough depicts America during and after its bloody internecine conflict: from the bitter, unprecedented military and political battles over the future of our nation to the long quest for freedom for millions of people who were formerly enslaved.

McDonough presents Grant as a highly capable, flawed general who met the challenges of his army and his country―and many of the challenges of his life―as well as might have been expected of any American commander. Grant is a riveting portrait of one of our nation’s most legendary leaders, through the lens of one of the Civil War’s most decisive campaigns.

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  5. ISBN-10
    1324130423
  6. ISBN-13
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James Lee McDonough is a masterful historian, and here he is at the top of his game, drawing on a lifetime of knowledge and honed skills to tell an epic story. Those who do not yet know Ulysses S. Grant will be enthralled, while students of the man and his achievements will see him and the events he shaped in new, subtle lights.

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A New York Times Bestseller

“Mr. McDonough’s masterly account is the product of a historian’s lifelong study. . . . [A] full-blooded narrative.”
―Carl Rollyson, Wall Street Journal

“[Mr. McDonough] offers a great deal of shrewd military analysis, but what gives the book its vigor is [his] presentation of Sherman’s propulsive personality.”
―Richard Snow, Wall Street Journal

“A book of epic scale. . . . [McDonough] tells this story well.”
―Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review

“A fascinating American life.”
―John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer

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