U. S. Grant by Joan Waugh
This title presents the biography and legacy of the Civil War general and eighteenth U.S. President. At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In an insightful blend of biography and cultural history, Joan Waugh traces Grant's shifting national and international reputation, illuminating the role of memory in our understanding of American history. She captures a sense of what led nineteenth-century Americans to overlook Grant's obvious faults and hold him up as a critically important symbol of national reconciliation and unity. Waugh further shows that Grant's reputation and place in public memory closely parallel the rise and fall of the northern version of the Civil War story - in which the United States was the clear, morally superior victor and Grant was the symbol of that victory. After the failure of Reconstruction, the dominant Union myths about the war gave way to a southern version that emphasized a more sentimental remembrance of the honor and courage of both sides and ennobled the 'Lost Cause'. By the 1920s, Grant's reputation had plummeted. Most Americans today are unaware of how revered Grant was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself.-
Gettysburg--Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill
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Learning from the Wounded
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In the Hands of Providence
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Gettysburg--the Second Day
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Fighting for the Confederacy
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Gettysburg--the First Day
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Glorious Contentment
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Lincoln and the Decision for War
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Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
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Lee Considered
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Shenandoah 1862
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Meade at Gettysburg
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Opium Slavery
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Vicksburg
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Battle Hymns
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Benjamin Franklin Butler
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Burying the Dead but not the Past
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Pea Ridge
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Pickett's Charge--the Last Attack at Gettysburg
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Bentonville
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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
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The Heart of Hell
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The Alabama and the Kearsarge
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Living by Inches
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Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
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When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
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Retreat from Gettysburg
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Lee and His Army in Confederate History
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River of Death-the Chickamauga Campaign, Volume 1
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Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
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The War That Made America
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Sherman's Civil War
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Roots of Secession
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Andersonville
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Richard Taylor
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Why Confederates Fought
JOAN WAUGH is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles and coeditor of the award-winning The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (UNC Press). GARY W. GALLAGHER is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War (UNC Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807833179 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807833177 |
| Title | U. S. Grant |
| Author | Joan Waugh |
| Series | Civil War America |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2009-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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