The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, by Anderson, Nancy Scott and Dwight Anderson
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The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, by Anderson, Nancy Scott and Dwight Anderson. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1988. Edition: Second printing. ISBN: 0394521064. Hardcover, 523 pages. Quarter bound in maroon cloth over blue paper-covered boards; gilt lettering and decoration on spine; gilt lettering on cover. Index.

Condition: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Corners bumped. Light chipping at lower spine end and around corners. Very faint Random House remainder stamp on top page edges.

Contents: From the jacket

This full-scale, engrossing dual biography follows the two men from their childhoods through West Point, the Army, the Mexican War, the 1850's -- when Lee pursued his military calling at a series of Army outposts and Grant became a clerk in his father's leather-goods store -- and through the years of the Civil War. . . . . The narrative, based largely on eyewitness accounts, diaries, and memoirs, demonstrates how the two great combatants were mirror images of each other; and -- on another level -- how the Civil War, even then, appeared as a reenactment of the American Revolution in which each side saw itself as defending from the other the principles laid down by the Founding Fathers.