Fierce patriot: the tangled lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
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"America's first 'celebrity' general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were exalted in the public eye. Others were known only to intimates--his family, friends and lovers, and the soldiers under his command. In this rich and layered portrait, Robert L. O'Connell captures the man in full for the first time. From his early exploits in Florida, to his role in California at the start of the Gold Rush, through his brilliant but tempestuous generalship during the Civil War, and to his postwar career as a key player in the building of the transcontinental railroad, Sherman was, as O'Connell puts it, the 'human embodiment of Manifest Destiny.' As he peels away the layers of the Sherman persona, O'Connell dispels a number of common misperceptions about his subject. He sheds new light on Sherman's relationship with Ulysses S. Grant, and also on his struggle against Nathan Bedford Forrest and the insurgency that was the other half of the Civil War along the Mississippi. Later he reveals Sherman's fabled march from Atlanta to the sea not as a campaign of unmitigated destruction, as it is often portrayed, but the careful execution of a necessary piece of strategy calculated to scare the South back into the Union. O'Connell's Sherman is no Attila, but a complicated soldier/statesman--perhaps the quintessential nineteenth-century American."--www.Amazon.com.
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O'Connell, R. L. (2014). Fierce patriot: the tangled lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. First Edition. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)O'Connell, Robert L. 2014. Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)O'Connell, Robert L, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York, Random House, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)O'Connell, Robert L. Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. First Edition. New York, Random House, 2014.
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505 | 0 | |a Part I. The military strategist -- Tyro -- The golden state -- Into the gloom -- The black hole -- Swamped -- Atlanta -- The march -- Bands of steel -- Part II. The general and his army -- The boys -- Road warriors -- Part III. The man and his families -- Cump -- Big time. | |
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