Anyone read Ron Chernow's recent bio of U.S. Grant yet?

YellowSnow

Only to 1862 so far, but skrong recommend. His biography of Worshington was excellent as well. That Ulysses Grant was a fighter and knew how to win.

RaceBannon

Grant was a failure and a drunk at everything but war

I always liked that about him

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Grant was a failure and a drunk at everything but war

I always liked that about him

You'd like this one Race. He wasn't a drunk most of the time. Rather, he generally was a tee totaler who got really hammered on occasion when he was stressed out.

HillsboroDuck

Dude won the war and the presidency.

Winners win.

YellowSnow

HillsboroDuck said:

Dude won the war and the presidency.

Winners win.

He had way more depth than Lee and was far better at big picture strategy than him.

CirrhosisDawg

Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?

YellowSnow

CirrhosisDawg said:

Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?

I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.

SFGbob

It's on my list. Still in the middle of Niall Ferguson - Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

creepycoug

YellowSnow said:

CirrhosisDawg said:

Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?

I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.

Good luck rowboat. You're a man of honor; but alas you are also a dreamer.

YellowSnow

creepycoug said:

YellowSnow said:

CirrhosisDawg said:

Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?

I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.

Good luck rowboat. You're a man of honor; but alas you are also a dreamer.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan -- to achieve and cherish a lasting peace among ourselves and with the world. to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with the world. all nations.

CirrhosisDawg

YellowSnow said:

creepycoug said:

YellowSnow said:

CirrhosisDawg said:

Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?

I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.

Good luck rowboat. You're a man of honor; but alas you are also a dreamer.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan -- to achieve and cherish a lasting peace among ourselves and with the world. to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with the world. all nations.

Relic of the past.
Foreshadowing of the future.