The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant Book

Well worth reading - I've read 6 books on Grant but was curious as to what Fuller had written way back in 1929 - as it turns out, Fuller wrote quite a bit - he makes a powerful case for Grant's being one of our country's greatest leaders - how Grant's legacy could have been so besmirched I can only attribute to all those deadender Confederates whose presence we are still cursed with - over the years enough racists have, like so many rats, chewed away at the truths of Grants many qualities - I was surprised by how much new information Fuller's book provided (Fuller, a friend of Hitler, has some unfortunate baggage that can't help his own legacy - Fuller is a story in his own self) - following are a few examples of the added background to the Civil War that Fuller provided - page 5 the unprofessional war: the troops, the officers, the huge infrastructure for battle had to be created in short order by men who had no training in such matters, there being no standing army anywhere near large enough for the Four Year War that awaited - the long standing economic and social factors that could only have ended as it did, i.e. war between the North and South - how the rapid western expansion exacerbated the political strife already nearing the boiling point - and the Politics, the inescapable factor that Fuller drove home best - never could Grant overlook the political forces that beset him during every campaign and battle (pages 211 & 305) - chapters 17 & 18 were particularly worthwhile reading - for the most part the last chapters were painful reading - dated and overblown, I skipped over half a dozen pages (something I am always loathe to do but ye gods enough already, wrap it up and be done). So much of that War still drags on - we never really got rid of our own aristocracy and in fact the class divisions (racial discrimination is but a means to an end - keeping the .01% in power) are as bad as they have ever been.