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The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
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With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist, who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy," Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, who was instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny." From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential nineteenth-century American.

Author Biography:

ROBERT L. O'CONNELL worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. He is the author of Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (Random House, 2010), Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression (Oxford, 1989), Soul of the Sword: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present (Free Press, 2000).
Release date Australia
May 26th, 2015
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
B/W photos throughout and maps
Pages
432
Dimensions
155x231x25
ISBN-13
9780812982121
Product ID
23101120

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