"The military career of Ulysses S. Grant is truly an exceptional
story...and the author tells it with obvious sympathy and feeling,
but with appropriate historical objectivity and balance...Simpson's
detailed analysis of Grant's drinking problem and the development
of his character traits are among the more distinctive and valuable
features of this book....Simpson also supplies full coverage of
Grant's domestic life and his devotion to his wife and children...A
masterly job...a detailed and exciting narrative of how one man
succeeded, where so many had failed, in pinning the Union back
together again." The New York Times
"In this first volume of a projected two, Brooks Simpson, a
historian at Arizona State University, offers an engaging and
judicious account of the Civil War hero for whom little in life,
not even his name, came easily. " The Washington Post
"This is the best study of Grant's military career since Bruce
Catton's two volumes; and on many matters it exceeds Catton, as a
consequence of the immense amount of Civil War scholarship during
the past thirty years, which Simpson has thoroughly mastered. He
has provided us with perhaps the best treatment of Union military
command and strategy now in print...One eagerly awaits Simpson's
second volume for the rest of the story." New Republic
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