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Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged Hardcover - 2015

by William C. Davis


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They met in person only four times, yet these two men--Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--determined the outcome of America's most divisive war and cast larger-than-life shadows over their reunited nation. They came from vastly different backgrounds: Lee from a distinguished family of waning fortunes; Grant, a young man on the make in a new America. Differing circumstances colored their outlooks on life: Lee, the melancholy realist; Grant, the incurable optimist. Then came the Civil War that made them both commanders of armies, leaders of men, and heroes to the multitudes of Americans then and since who rightfully place them in the pantheon of our greatest soldiers. Forged in battle as generals, these two otherwise very different men became almost indistinguishable in their instincts, attributes, attitudes, and skills in command. Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. Exploring their personalities, their characters, their ethical and moral compasses, and their political and military worlds, William C. Davis, one of America's preeminent historians, uses substantial, newly discovered evidence on both men to find surprising similarities between them, as well as new insights and unique interpretations on how their lives prepared them for the war they fought and influenced how they fought it. Crucible of Command is both a gripping narrative of the final year of the war and a fresh, revealing portrait of these two great commanders as they took each other's measure across the battlefield with the aid of millions of men.

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  • Title Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
  • Author William C. Davis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 688
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, Boston, MA
  • Date 2015-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306822452 / 0306822458
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 2.2 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 5.59 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Confederate States of America
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013497767
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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William C. Davis is the author or editor of more than fifty books in the fields of Civil War and Southern history, as well as numerous documentary screenplays. A three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award, given for book-length works in Confederate History, he was senior consultant for the A&E Network's 52-episode documentary series Civil War Journal. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and serves on several other consultative bodies. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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