"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...

Recollections and Letters discusses not only Lee's great military mind, but also his advocacy of peace to allow the south to rejoin the Union with dignity and honor and as President of Washington College, a driving force to create a viable educational system in the South.

Rebel Yell traces Jackson's brilliant twenty-four month career in the Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend, his stunning effect on the course of the war itself, and his tragic death.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A compelling conclusion to the classic World War II memoir "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa." E.B. Sledge continues his story of his Marine career in World War II.

An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and attacked by other Southerners, and blamed for the South's...

With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents. 1940 Pulitzer Prize in History.

With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents. 1940 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Includes index.

The library of American biography.