From the New York Times best-selling historian, a portrait of one of America’s most storied military leaders.As general of the Union army and president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced problems as grave and demanding as any in the life of the nation: civil war, an ultimately thwarted project of Reconstruction, the early years of the sordid Gilded Age, and the battle for African American rights and freedom. But in life and in death, the general’...

Shinkyu Lee is Visiting Assistant Professor of International & Global Studies and Director of the Rohatyn Global Fellows Program at Middlebury College. He has previously published in the European Journal of Political Theory, Polity, and The Review of Politics.

"Sometimes the only way to break free is to set everything on fire."Ren Ashford is one bad decision away from homelessness when he answers an ad for a driver position that pays three times what he's worth. The interview happens in the rain outside Corvus Tower. The man who hires him—Ares Corvus, thirty-two, billionaire, devastatingly controlled—counts Ren's pulse like he's measuring his capacity for fear.Then offers him a contract.Not for driving. F...

The author, James Lee Rethi, has written a personal memoir superimposed on descriptions of day-to-day life in a Texas prison.He does a lot of soul-searching and seeking of spirituality to survive a penitentiary environment totally new and foreign to him. He does not hold back when it comes to describing the life of a family man and a professional technical writer interrupted by four-and-a-half years in Texas prisons because of driving while high. And he spares no details about his f...

There is a door in the middle of the city you live in.You have walked past it. Possibly today. You did not see it because it does not look like a door — it looks like an ordinary moment, an ordinary decision, an ordinary belief you hold so naturally that defending it feels like defending yourself.That is the first trick. And it is the smallest one in this book.Trojan is not a self-help book. It is not a productivity book. It is not, despite what some early readers i...

Colorful, dramatic, blundering, and tragic – these are some of the adjectives that have been applied to the two-day engagement at Shiloh. This battle, which bears the biblical name meaning “place of peace,” was one of the bloodiest encounters of the Civil War. The Union colonel, whose words give the present book its title, foretold the losses when he told his men: “Fill your canteens Boys! Some of you will be in hell before night….”Fought in the early spring of 1862 on the west ban...

A compelling new volume from the author of Shiloh: In Hell before Night and Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy, this book explores the strategic importance of Kentucky for both sides in the Civil War and recounts the Confederacy’s bold attempt to capture the Bluegrass State. In a narrative rich with quotations from the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of participants, James Lee McDonough brings to vigorous life an episode whose full significance has previousl...

New Beginnings is a self-help/motivational book. It is an inspirational story written by the author to inspire anyone and everyone to be the best version of themselves at any age in life. As a thirty-nine-year-old adult, my inner light bulb in life went on at the age of thirty-seven. Yes, I was a late bloomer. I wrote this book to inspire people of all ages who have been confronted with obstacles in life stemming from their early childhood years through adulthood like I have. I had a diffi...

Best of “The Strand Magazine”: 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction“The Strand Magazine was always a giant voice in our corner of the literary world—and it still is today. This collection proves why—these unearthed gems and exciting new pieces shouldn’t be missed.” —Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesThis star-studded anniversary collection features over t...

Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award.In the wake of the bloodshed at Chickamauga, the struggle for Chattanooga became a decisive engagement of the Civil War. McDonough reconstructs the siege and battles as they appeared to both Rebels and Yankees, giving the reader a front-row seat at one of the major dramas in American history.

On December 31, 1862, some ten thousand Confederate soldiers streamed out of the dim light of early morning to stun the Federals who were still breakfasting in their camp. Nine months earlier the Confederates had charged the Yankees in a similarly devastating attack at dawn, starting the Battle of Shiloh. By the time this new battle ended, it would resemble Shiloh in other ways—it would rival that struggle’s shocking casualty toll of 24,000 and it would become a major defeat for the South....

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