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Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher
by Edward H. Bonekemper III
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 1596986417
Paperback - 464 pages (October 2010)
History Slandered His Name
Now One Book Restores It
Throughout history, General Ulysses S. Grant has been unfairly maligned, painted as a crude butcher of troops who only won the Civil War through sheer brute force and numbers. Yet author Edward H. Bonekemper III proves this to be an unfair—and inaccurate—characterization of Grant in the new paperback version of Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher.
Tracing Grant’s unparalleled successes from Fort Henry and Vicksburg to Chattanooga and Appomattox, Bonekemper shows how Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders and maneuvering his troops adroitly—and why he outshone his much-lionized rival, Robert E. Lee.
Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher also explores the paradoxes of Grant’s early life and deals forthrightly with Grant’s struggles in civilian life—and particularly the allegations of alcoholism and other factors that led his contemporaries (and historians) to underestimate him. Controversial and compelling, Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher, Bonekemper ably silences Grant’s critics and restores Grant to the heroic reputation he so richly deserves.
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About the Author:
Edward H. Bonekemper III has an M.A. in American history and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is adjunct lecturer in military history at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, a frequent Civil War speaker, and the author of three other Civil War books: How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War; McClellan and Failure: A Study of CivilWar Fear, Incompetence and Worse; and Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian. He and his wife of over forty-six years, Susan Weidemoyer Bonekemper, live in Willow Street, PA, with their cockapoo Ruby. |
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