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...found his fighter.When Ulysses S. Grant took command in the East, Lincoln didn't, for once, demand specific plans. Six weeks later Grant had lost more men than every general before him, but Robert E. Lee's army was bottled up in Petersburg, Va. "Hold on with a bull-dog grip," Lincoln urged Grant. Unlike his predecessors, Grant...
PROMISE A snappish but decent man without political connections, he wasn't thrilled to find himself in command. "I have been tried and condemned," he said...
Those unfamiliar with the events surrounding the assassination will find many such details in this book that will surprise them. Originally, for example, Booth plotted to kidnap the President by abducting him from a theater box during a command performance. Also, Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger plot to simultaneously murder the Vice-President and Secretary of State, neither of which was successful. Sometimes Geary throws in a weird fact just for its color, such as Lincoln's spooky dream about his own assassination...
After ordering three jet fighters under his command to buzz the capital, Vargas flew to an air base in his home province of Manabí, some 150 miles to the southwest, and began a five-day rebellion. "Better to die like a man than live like a coward," he declared. The show of air power, however, suggested to some Ecuadorans that Vargas intended to launch a military coup in their country of 8.2 million people, which has been under civilian rule since...
...contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It still seems unfinished in some scenes, too cautious in others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger, a jealous yet indifferent lover, a humane moralist who kills innocents without remorse. Rather than impose a defining personality to achieve cohesion, Kline glories in the character's variety. Spontaneity and impulse are key to his approach...