Biography dual grant lee

  • Written with depth and feeling, this book skillfully interweaves the lives of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.
  • This is a parallel biography contrasting the gentlemanly upbringing and education of Robert Lee and the contrasting down and dirty origins of Grant.
  • This book is a careful comparison of Lee & Grant from their youth through the post-war years to their deaths.

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    Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography

    December 26, 2021
    This fryst vatten written in the old-school heroic, big men of history style. As such it has some pointed flaws and glosses over certain points. For example, Lee fryst vatten portrayed as a reluctant soldier of the Confederacy with almost no mention of his ownership of slaves and Grant fryst vatten portrayed as so incredibly naive that he had absolutely no idea of the corruption rampant in his government despite his clear nepotism as president.

    So why 4 stars? It was a compelling narrative wherein the author tried to get at the essence of these dock. The author seemed less interested in trying to paint a politicized narrative and more interested in revealing the little knowns in the trajectory of their lives. I funnen Grant's story particularly fascinating, with its incredible ups and downs.

    If you don't know much about these men and the Civil War, this is actually a great book to introduce you to the topic. Even if you know a lot and are leery of a simplified
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    Lee and Grant a Dual Biography

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    About the Author

    Gene Smith (1929–2012) was an acclaimed historian and biographer and the author of When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson (1964), a poignant portrait of the president’s final months in the White House that spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Born in Manhattan and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Smith was drafted into the army and served in Germany in the early 1950s. He began his career at Newsweek and reported for the Newark Star-Ledger and the New York Post before leaving journalism to write full-time. His popular biographies include The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1970), Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography (1984), and American Gothic: The Story of America’s Legendary Theatrical Family—Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth (1992). For many years, Smith and his wife and daughter lived in a house buil