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Illustrated. xix + 533 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards; spine very lightly faded. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. A fine copy lacking dust wrapper.

Illustrated. xix + 533 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards; spine very lightly faded. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. A fine copy lacking dust wrapper.

xix, [3], 533, [3] pages. Frontis illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. DJ has

xix, [3], 533, [3] pages. Frontis illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Brooks Donohue Simpson (born August 4, 1957) is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in studies of the American Civil War. After working three years as an assistant editor for The Papers of Andrew Johnson, based at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Simpson joined the faculty at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1987. Three years later, in 1990, he migrated west to Arizona State University, where he presently teaches. Simpson is the author of six books, the coauthor of two more, and the editor or coeditor of eight other books. He is perhaps best known for his work on Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for that year. Derived from a Kirkus review: The superb first installment in a planned two-volume biography of the greatest Northern general of the Civil War-and one of the most remarkable military figures of all time. Simpson is an oft-published authority on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Here he takes on the case of U.S. Grant, whose unlikely rise from West Point-trained failed businessman to the pinnacle of military power is one of the most extraordinary success stories in American history. Appropriately enough, roughly 80 per cent of the volume concerns Grant's military career, from his service in the Mexican War through his triumph at Appomattox. But the distinctive value of Simpson's work is that he does not slight Grant's personal life, especially his fraught relationships with his father and slaveholding father-in-law and his marriage to Julia Dent Grant. Simpson is unfailingly balanced and judicious in his assessments of military decisions, battles, and politics. He does not shy away from Grant's tactical errors or the never-stilled rumors of his excessive drinking. Grant's life is more fully realized in this work than in previous studies.