Reviews for This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor

The average rating for This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-04 00:00:00 Depalle Janick Having read numerous biographies on the men from this era, I was eager to read about the female side of things. I should have read something by a better writer with more knowledge on historical matters. In Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Cokie Roberts often gets her facts slightly askew. That's not a good thing in a history book. It leads one to question the validity of everything the author says. If relaying factual information isn't the historian's number one priority, what is? Too often Roberts stops the flow to say, "See, women did just as important things as the men back then, too!" I don't doubt that they did. In fact, that is precisely why I picked this book. I've read enough about the Washingtons, Adamses and Jeffersons. I want to hear about the equally strong women! The courageous women of our nation's founding - Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Margaret "Captain Molly" Corbin, and young Sybil Ludington - deserve better. I don't feel that drawing attention to historical inequities of man-vs-woman in this case served these women as well as if the writer were to just state the facts and let the actions of the women speak for themselves. All in all, Founding Mothers... was not horrible, but a disappointment in the end. However, that won't keep me from seeking something better on the same subject. Recommendations are welcome.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-10 00:00:00 Kelly Ligue fascinating