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GRANT TAKES COMMAND, by Bruce Catton. In the final volume of a trilogy begun by the late historian Lloyd Lewis, Catton carries Grant's career to his day of final victory at Appomattox. The author's quiet lucidity and laconic humor are well suited to a portrayal of the elusive, taciturn little general...
...Glory Road. Using Lewis' abundant notes, Catton carried on. In Grant Moves South (1960), he brought Grant from his unpromising early career up to his tenacious triumph at Vicksburg. Now, in Grant Takes Command, he follows the taciturn-little general to his day of final victory at Appomattox...
...frustrating war, a divided homefront, and national doubts about presidential leadership. There is one even more striking similarity: though the North was vastly superior to the South in nearly everything that should have brought early victory, four years were required to bring about Lee's sur render at Appomattox. However, unlike Lincoln, who tested-and found wanting-more than half a dozen generals before he found a winner in Grant, Lyndon Johnson has yet to name his second field commander...
...doubt there will be old soldiers who will tell him that they saw him in Bougainville in 1944 and youngsters who will say that their dads caught his act in Frankfurt. And no doubt Hope will quip that "I hope your grandfather didn't miss me at Appomattox-I was great...
...event ranking with Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The publishers must be funnin'. Unwittingly, Berry Morgan, a 47-year-old Mississippi housewife, has produced the dadgum laughingest parody of magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor...