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- Book Title
- America’s Hardscrabble General : Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy
- ISBN
- 9780809338795
- Publication Name
- America's Hardscrabble General : Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Series
- World of Ulysses S. Grant Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 2.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 244 Pages
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How Grant's humble beginnings shaped his unique military genius Renowned for his skill, courage, and indomitability during the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant is considered a model for outstanding American generalship. However, unlike most of his fellow officers, Grant came from humble Midwestern beginnings and experienced a number of professional failures before rising to military prominence. Grant grew up on a farm on the Ohio frontier and reluctantly attended West Point, where he finished in the middle of his class. In his early army career, he was often underestimated by his peers despite valiant service. After the Mexican War Grant's "Hardscrabble" farm outside St. Louis failed, and when he decided to rejoin the U.S. army, he was given the unenviable command of a rowdy volunteer regiment, the 21st Illinois. How did Grant--an average student, failed farmer, and common man--turn the 21st Illinois into a showcase regiment and become a successful general? In this engaging analysis, Jack Hurst argues that Grant's military brilliance stemmed not from his West Point education but rather from his roots in America's lower middle class and its commonsense values. His upbringing in the antebellum rural Midwest undergirded his military skill and helped him develop an innate humility, sense of justice, and ability to focus, leading him to form close relationships with his men. Through a detailed account of Grant's early years, from boyhood through the Battle of Shiloh, Hurst explores how Grant's modest start and experiences in the Mexican War prefigured his greatest military triumphs. Ultimately Grant abandoned the traditional military practice of his time, which relied upon maneuver, and instead focused on fighting. His strategy to always move forward, win or lose, turned even his losses into essential elements of victory and characterized the aggressive, relentless approach that would ultimately win the Civil War and save the Union.
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Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809338793
ISBN-13
9780809338795
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19057255978
Product Key Features
Publication Name
America's Hardscrabble General : Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Series
World of Ulysses S. Grant Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
244 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
2.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E672.H87 2022
Reviews
"Jack Hurst writes brilliantly, with a bold, energetic style that is highly engaging. His analysis is thought-provoking and enlightening. Readers will enjoy this book and come away from it with deeper understandings of Grant, the Civil War, nineteenth-century America, and military history."--Steven E. Woodworth, coeditor of The Shiloh Campaign "In this new, unorthodox biography of Grant, Jack Hurst explores Grant's origins and early military service to uncover what separated Grant's generalship from that of so many of his peers, positing that it was Grant's experience as a 'common man' in the antebellum United States that created his no-nonsense, practical approach to warfare. Amid a raft of recent Grant biographies, Hurst's take on Grant raises points well worth considering."--David A. Powell, author of The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga, "Jack Hurst writes brilliantly, with a bold, energetic style that is highly engaging. His analysis is thought-provoking and enlightening. Readers will enjoy this book and come away from it with deeper understandings of Grant, the Civil War, nineteenth-century America, and military history."--Steven E. Woodworth, coeditor of The Shiloh Campaign "In this new, unorthodox biography of Grant, Jack Hurst explores Grant's origins and early military service to uncover what separated Grant's generalship from that of so many of his peers, positing that it was Grant's experience as a 'common man' in the antebellum United States that created his no-nonsense, practical approach to warfare. Amid a raft of recent Grant biographies, Hurst's take on Grant raises points well worth considering."--David A. Powell, author of The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga "In Hardscrabble General, [Hurst] provides a fine portrait of a leader who never sought wealth or notoriety, who cared much more for the men he commanded and the nation that had educated him than he did for the headlines he made. A man whose life lessons taught him the humility with which he approached his job and the clarity of purpose needed to see a thing through to its conclusion. To win."-- Chris Scott , Chapter 16 "Nothing ever came easy to Ulysses S. Grant. From a childhood dominated by an irascible, overbearing father and an equally reticent mother [to] experiencing all the horrors and devastation of war at the ripe young age of twenty-four to the humiliation in front of an increasingly conscious and critical public eye as he desperately tried to support his family, a humbled Grant understood the meaning of true deprivation. . . . Yet rather than let these circumstances defeat him, Grant endured these hardships, learned valuable life lessons from them, and, combined with his formative background, used these lessons to his advantage to become the greatest and most successful battle commander in American military history. So argues Jack Hurst in his compelling and highly engaging America's Hardscrabble General, Ulysses S. Grant: From Farm Boy to Shiloh ."-- Richard G. Mannion , Civil War Book Review, "Jack Hurst writes brilliantly, with a bold, energetic style that is highly engaging. His analysis is thought-provoking and enlightening. Readers will enjoy this book and come away from it with deeper understandings of Grant, the Civil War, nineteenth-century America, and military history."--Steven E. Woodworth, coeditor of The Shiloh Campaign "In this new, unorthodox biography of Grant, Jack Hurst explores Grant's origins and early military service to uncover what separated Grant's generalship from that of so many of his peers, positing that it was Grant's experience as a 'common man' in the antebellum United States that created his no-nonsense, practical approach to warfare. Amid a raft of recent Grant biographies, Hurst's take on Grant raises points well worth considering."--David A. Powell, author of The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga "In Hardscrabble General, [Hurst] provides a fine portrait of a leader who never sought wealth or notoriety, who cared much more for the men he commanded and the nation that had educated him than he did for the headlines he made. A man whose life lessons taught him the humility with which he approached his job and the clarity of purpose needed to see a thing through to its conclusion. To win."-- Chris Scott , Chapter 16
Table of Content
CONTENTS List of Maps Introduction: "Getting" General Grant 1. Farm Boy 2. Mexico 3. Peacetime: Limbo of Horrors 4. 1861-1863: Last Lessons Conclusion. The Guts of Grant's Generalship Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2022
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Military / General, United States / General, Military
Lccn
2021-059824
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
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