CWT Letters from Readers- December 2009

Taken for Granted In his article “General Grant’s ‘Living and Speaking Conscience’” (October 2009), Peter Cozzens carefully qualifies what little evidence he has and resurfaces two of the traditional knocks on Ulysses S. Grant—that he was a drunk and a puppet of someone smarter. Bruce Catton’s magnificent book Grant Takes Command answers both of these …

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