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John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the steady, commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
...Douglas Southall Freeman's more floridly written Lee's Lieutenants, Lincoln Finds a General is essentially a study in command. It recapitulates old battles not to recapture the horror and flavor of battle but to evaluate the leadership which was often more important than numbers and weapons. Crisper, more critical, less reverent of big names than Freeman, Williams shows Lee and Jackson as the great leaders they were, but quite capable of errors in command (e.g., Lee's slips at Gettysburg, Jackson's boner at Port Republic) which most of their admirers have glossed over. With...