Robert O'Harrow Jr. is an award-winning reporter on the investigative unit at The Washington Post. O'Harrow is the author of No Place to Hide, Zero Day: The Threat in Cyberspace, and The Quartermaster, a biography of Montgomery C. Meigs. He was a contributor to the 2016 biography, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power. He lives with his wife and son in Arlington, Virginia.
"Robert O'Harrow brings an eye for lively detail and an
appreciative sympathy for his subject . . . A former member of
Lincoln's Cabinet remarked that without Meigs's superb
contributions, "the civil war in the United States could not have
been prosecuted . . . with the smallest hope of success." The
Quartermaster does much to sustain this judgment, highlighting the
centrality of logistics to the Union victory and situating a
principal architect of that success near center stage in the
compelling national drama."-- "The Washington Post"
"The Quartermaster offers a vivid and eminently human portrait of
Montgomery Meigs, the brilliant and principled general whose
mastery of supply and logistics on a grand scale contributed
decisively to Union victory in the Civil War. Too long overlooked,
Meigs deserves a place beside such luminaries as Grant and Sherman,
as O'Harrow convincingly demonstrates in this fast-paced, bracing
account. This is one of the most important Civil War biographies to
appear in recent years."--Peter Cozzens, author of The Earth is
Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
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