Jean Edward Smith

Grant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this magnificent biography, Jean Edward Smith skillfully reconciles the disparate, conflicting assessments of Ulysses S. Grant, confirming his genius as a general, but convincingly showing that Grant's presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories. 40 photos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780684849270
• ISBN-10: 0684849275
• Artikelnr.: 21799235

Autorenporträt

Jean Edward Smith taught at the University of Toronto for thirty-five years, and at Marshall University for twelve. He was also a visiting scholar at Columbia, Princeton, and Georgetown. He is the author of Bush, a biography of the 43rd president; Eisenhower in War and Peace; FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians; Grant, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; and The Liberation of Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
ONE The Early Years
TWO Mexico
THREE Resignation
FOUR War
FIVE "Unconditional Surrender"
SIX Shiloh
SEVEN Vicksburg
EIGHT Chattanooga
NINE General in Chief
TEN The Wilderness
ELEVEN Grant and Lee
TWELVE Appomattox
THIRTEEN Reconstruction
FOURTEEN Let Us Have Peace
FIFTEEN Grant in the White House
SIXTEEN Diplomacy
SEVENTEEN Great White Father
EIGHTEEN Reconstruction Revisited
NINETEEN The Gilded Age
TWENTY Taps
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index