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    Grant: A Biography
    Grant: A Biography
    Grant: A Biography
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    Grant: A Biography

    By John Mosier

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    Grant: A Biography tells of the extraordinary life and legacy of one of America's most ingenious military minds

    A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming President of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership tactics by integrating new technologies in classical military strategy.

    In this compelling biography, John Mosier reveals the man behind the military legend, showing how Grant's creativity and genius off the battlefield shaped him into one of our nation's greatest military leaders.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9781250100818
    Grant: A Biography
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    John Mosier

    John Mosier is a professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans.  He is the author of four books of military history: The Myth of the Great War, The Blitzkrieg Myth, The Generalship of U. S. Grant, and Cross of Iron. He has appeared on the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, Sky News, and Comcast. An active film critic (he served on the Camera d'Or jury at the Cannes Film Festival), he has also written over 100 articles on film for Kino, Americas, Variety, and the New Orleans Arts Review.  He lives in Jefferson, Louisiana.

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      Grant - John Mosier

      Introduction

      THERE ARE ENOUGH BIOGRAPHIES OF ULYSSES S. GRANT to fill a small library, and three of our most distinguished military historians have written accounts of his military career. In military history, Grant is an important figure. To the general reader, however, he is less known, and his considerable accomplishments on the battlefield are obscured by the specialist treatments that constitute the standard discourse of military historians.

      The aim of this book is to give the general reader an understanding of Grant’s generalship, and not his presidency. The portrait of Grant that this book draws differs from other biographies in many important ways.

      First, the focus of this biography is on Grant the general, his strategy and legacy. For this reason, this biography is not limited to the Civil War, American history, and American generals. Grant was a world-class strategist whose achievements left a lasting imprint on the American military, and his unbroken string of victories makes him unique. The best way to understand his achievements is to compare him with his peers and heirs: the other great captains of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the modern U.S. army.

      This approach involves comparisons with men whose achievements lie outside of the normal scope of American history. However, even without any knowledge of the particulars of Frederick the Great of Prussia (for example), the mere fact that the comparison can be made helps to explain Grant’s importance as a general.

      Most Americans have an idea about the reputation of the German army: we fought them in two wars. The founder of that army was Frederick the Great, who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786, turning it into a great military power. The victorious Prussian army that Frederick created and led became the model for all future German armies. So too with the army that Grant led to victory in 1865; Grant demonstrated that an army of civilians could become the best fighting force in the world, as indeed the American army has become.

      Unlike many of his contemporaries, Grant did not try to establish himself as a military theorist or intellectual. But his achievements resonate with Napoleonic maxims, the first and most important being this: In War, delay is fatal. Few if any of the other Union generals grasped that point, but Grant did. Similarly, his solutions to military problems track the solutions of Wellington and von Moltke—the two most successful generals of their times. He absorbed the basic Napoleonic ideas, and he proved himself able to direct enormous armies on a Napoleonic scale. Indeed, his abilities in this regard greatly exceeded Napoleon’s, whose far-flung legions generally floundered, without the emperor’s personal

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