David J. Fitzpatrick is Professor of History at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His articles have been published in the Journal of Military History.
This superbly researched and entertaining book is a pathbreaking
reconsideration of one of America's most influential military
intellectuals. David J. Fitzpatrick's study will appeal to all
those interested in the Civil War, the U.S. Army, and American
military policy."" - Brian McAllister Linn, author of Elvis's Army:
Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
""David Fitzpatrick successfully challenges traditional
interpretations not only of Emory Upton but also of the army's
failure to implement substantive reforms following the Civil War.
Anyone interested in the development of tactics and American
military policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries needs to read this book."" - Robert Wooster, author of
The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the
West, 1783 - 1900
The author has exhaustively consulted myriad primary and secondary
sources to produce this well-written study. He concludes that Upton
has been a misunderstood reformer, writing that instead of being
considered the enemy of the citizen-soldier, ""he was in fact his
advocate."" This book is highly recommended to all readers who are
interested in the evolution of American military policy. - The
Journal of America's Military Past
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