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Anyone read Ron Chernow's recent bio of U.S. Grant yet?
YellowSnow
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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.
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Grant was a failure and a drunk at everything but war
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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.RaceBannon said:Grant was a failure and a drunk at everything but war
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Dude won the war and the presidency.
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He had way more depth than Lee and was far better at big picture strategy than him.HillsboroDuck said:Dude won the war and the presidency.
Winners win.
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Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?
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I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.CirrhosisDawg said:Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?
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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
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Good luck rowboat. You're a man of honor; but alas you are also a dreamer.YellowSnow said:
I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.CirrhosisDawg said:Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?
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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.creepycoug said:
Good luck rowboat. You're a man of honor; but alas you are also a dreamer.YellowSnow said:
I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.CirrhosisDawg said:Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?
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Relic of the past.YellowSnow said:
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.creepycoug said:
Good luck rowboat. You're a man of honor; but alas you are also a dreamer.YellowSnow said:
I want us to raise ourselves from being just a bored of vile filth that Derek created.CirrhosisDawg said:Are you sure the tug is the right place to post about a history book? Any book? At all?
Foreshadowing of the future.
