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McFeely, William S. Ulysses S. Grant: An Album
W W Norton & Co Ltd 2004 0393020320 / 9780393020328 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of General Grant now offers this "album" of his life and works. The selection of 100 photographs and illustrations (deserving praise goes to researcher Neil Giordano) is superior, considering that only one pre-Civil War photograph of Grant exists. They do, however, lack captions, and the descriptions of them in the text are not always properly placed for easy identification. The text presents other problems: not all of McFeely's seven essays on different aspects of Grant-emancipator, fond husband, photographic subject, world traveler, author of a superb autobiography-are equally well composed, and the pieces on Grant's opposition to slavery don't say enough about how he managed Reconstruction as president. The author also goes to the lengths of referring to Julia Grant as "silly" without supporting his case. The essay on the photographs of Grant is concise and cogent, however, and includes some wartime magazine illustrations that have to be seen to be believed. McFeely also does full justice to Grant's memoirs. One has the feeling that the author returned to this familiar subject as something of a labor of love, without conceding anything to the novice student of Grant or the Civil War. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. ... McFeely is a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Grant: A Biography (2002). Here he has not attempted to provide a comprehensive portrait of the man and his life.^B Rather, he has assembled a "scrapbook" of drawings, photos,^B and paintings that illuminate various stages of Grant's personal and public life. They are accompanied by text that focuses on specific aspects of his character and career. There are interesting, and sometimes surprisingly critical, passages revealing Grant's successes and shortcomings in dealing with emancipated slaves. The section on his relationship with his wife, Julia, illustrates just how firm and passionate a relationship they maintained over decades. The drawings and photos covering his world travels after his presidency convey a sense of a man^B cut adrift from the centers of power that he had learned to enjoy. Readers who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the man and his times should read McFeely's earlier biography, but this is a useful look at various aspects of Grant's life. Jay Freeman Copyright ® American Library Association. All rights reserved
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