Biography from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From front DJ flap: "In the summer of 1863 after the climactic battle at Vicksburg, Lincoln's government was more interested in Ulysses Simpson Grant than any other man alive." This book gives a "detailed and revealing portrait of Grant during the last year and a half of the war. Book - Good+ condition. Navy cloth over boards with gold gilt image on… Read more about this item

Quote on back cover: "There is a magnificent unity to this story of Grant's leadership in both war and peace that is not found anywhere else. In this compelling narrative, Grant emerges more fascinating than ever before." - Doris Kearns Goodwin, authorof Team of Rivals and No Ordinary Time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history Black and white photo section… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "Few biologists in the history of natural science have been as groundbreaking, controversial, and productive as Edward Osborne Wilson, long hailed as 'Darwin's successor'." Wilson focused on the insect society, then extended his research from social insects through the animal kingdom to human society. He is known for Sociobiology, published in 1975and demonstrated how Darwinian evolution shapes… Read more about this item

From the Preface: "...I ran across the name of a man from my home state who had served in South Africa in the Boer War: John Fillmore Blake of Bolivar, Missouri. Although a native-born American, West Point graduate, and U.S. Army veteran, he is remembered from the Boer War as a commander in the famed Irish Brigade of the Boer Army.… Read more about this item

From the Introduction: "...Henry Adams wrote with a perception which warrants its frequent quotation: 'Almost every other American statesman might be described in a parenthesis. A few broad strokes of the brush would paint the portrait of all the early presidents with this exception...Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil.'" Book - Good+ condition. Red coated… Read more about this item

From back cover: "The Civil War Almanac is an invaluable compendium. No Civil War buff should be without it." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Book - Good condition. At some point parts of the book were exposed to liquid (water, I'd say). There are some page "crinkles", but none of the pages are stuck together and it does not affect the readability… Read more about this item

From the front DJ flap: "A former Mexican War general and governor of Missouri, Price fought in nearly every battle in the Trans-Mississippi theatre and at one time was considered a likely successor to Jefferson Davis." "When the Union part in Missouri resorted to military force, he [Price] joined the secessionists and became commander of the Missouri state guard." Book - Very… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the… Read more about this item

From DJ front flap: "Drawing on the best of these accounts, most of them long out of print, Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray presents in a single volume the personal words of these leaders and provides an overview of the command experience in the Civil War. " Includes: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, George Armstrong Custer, John S. Mosby, George B.… Read more about this item

In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield...Donald Connelly examines the career of one of the leading commanders in the western theater of the Civil War and the role of politics in the formulation of military policy in both war and peace in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Book - Very Good condition. Navy cloth over… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Ever since the marked success of Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, his distinguished biography of Mathew B. Brady, Roy Meredith has since applied himself to the fascinating personal aspects of the photographic art of the nineteenth century." This book is about the images of General Robert E. Lee, before, during, and after the War of the Southern Confederacy. "While this… Read more about this item

From page v.: "Daniel has been one of the most misunderstood Great Men of all great men!" "People know that he played a part in the advancement of civilization during the early pioneer days, but, in reality, they know little of the type of man he really was or the great part he played in the Western expansion..." "Daniel Boone was a… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. ...Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories… Read more about this item

Per the dust covers: This is a full-scale biography of John Brown. "John Brown was a profoundly religious man dedicated to emancipation and Negro rights..." He "tried to overthrow slavery in the South itself by attacking Harpers Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection." "Was Brown a vicious fanatic, or the greatest abolitionist hero in history?" This history is based on "contemporary… Read more about this item

From the Preface: "There is nothing new in Tom's Boy Harry. All of the facts contained in this book have been published before. But this is the first time, as far as can be learned, that the facts and stories have been presented in one continuous and connected story. Most of the incidents related in this book when taken by… Read more about this item

Quote from back cover: "Mosby achieved far greater fame during the Civil War than the vast majority of the military officers who outranked him. Ramage disentangles Mosby from a mass of myth and misinformation, reaching judicious conclusions that never exaggerate the Virginian's role in shaping the conflict." - Gary W. Gallagher From front DJ flap: "Mosby possessed a genius for guerrilla… Read more about this item

From back cover: "We have lost the last hero," exclaimed President Eisenhower when William J. Donovan died in February 1959. Lawyer, politician, soldier, spymaster of legendary dimensions, Donovan first made his mark in the U.S. cavalry in Mexico, chasing Pancho Villa' distinguished himself in France in World War I, winning not only the sobriquet "Wild Bill" but a half-dozen of… Read more about this item

From "Plan and Purpose" page: "Back of this undertaking was a definite purpose, and that purpose was to collect and make permanent a complete account of the growth and development of the social and economic life of the people of the State of Illinois." "Here will be found farmers and factory owners alongside lawyers, teachers and preachers. Here too will be… Read more about this item

From the Foreword: Here the founder of Methodism comes alive in a gripping narrative true to the facts of history but with overtones that intensify the human qualities of the man." "The Burning Thirst" is the first of a new series of reading books for Methodist youth. ... "these books, planned for individual reading, will supplement curriculum materials. The present volume will… Read more about this item

From Introduction: "Webster's American Military Biographies presents in alphabetical order 1033 full biographies of persons who have contributed signally to the military history of the nation. The word 'military', it should be pointed out, is used here in an extended sense covering those things pertaining to all the armed forces, regular and irregular, on land or sea or in the… Read more about this item