![]() ![]() Grant ( PUSG) makes up for some of the deficiency, there seems to be just one reference to the indispensable Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Although the extensive citing of the authoritative Papers of U.S. ![]() Despite a stellar reputation, the author has surprisingly not done his homework and relies far too heavily on biased sources, particularly works by Adam Badeau, Horace Porter, and John Russell Young, and both Ulysses and Julia Grant’s respective Personal Memoirs. And Chernow has a seriously deficient understanding of General and President Grant, of the American Civil War, and of military matters, in general. But throughout, the author takes a highly partisan view of his subject in controversy after controversy when the evidence does not support it. He seems especially compelling in discussing the fight for Black civil rights during Reconstruction. There is no doubt that Ron Chernow tells a charming story in his recent biography of Ulysses S. ![]()
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