Sean

gettin' unlucky in kentucky

Revisado: 08-13-20

bragg is not such a moron as ol' shelby foote makes him out to be

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colourful context to parabolic tales

Revisado: 07-17-20

Not quite sure what the original contribution of this book is - more of a played out re-telling - doesn't have a compelling or unique perspective.

As a social studies book report, which draws on Grant's memoir, and probably a bunch of soldierly love letters are primary sources I would give it a C+, as a work of historical fiction I would give it a D+.

The narrative arch is weak, it's hard to understand if he's going by events/battles, or by person ~ seems like a mixture of both.

Why is Sherman on the cover - he hardly features in the book at all.

This dude is a mega fanboy of Jefferson Davis, which is interesting 'cause people usually use Jefferson Davis as a scapegoat and make everything he ever did seem stupid AF ~ so that was kind of interesting - to hear the story of Buena Vista told in such a way as to highlight Davis' positive contribution.

Many of the stories are well-known parables of the pre-civil war, e.g. Grant's Kamanchii style horse ride, but he added some interesting contextual information - which I hadn't remembered hearing before.

So many quotes from Grant's memoirs.

The best thing about this book is the narration of Robertson Dean ~ 9 hour movie trailer - in a good way.

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