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Generalizations do not frighten him : “ The story of mankind , in its broader sense , is nothing but a record of the successive adjustments of social status to economic facts . ” Intelligence and wit flash through his pages .
Generalizations do not frighten him : “ The story of mankind , in its broader sense , is nothing but a record of the successive adjustments of social status to economic facts . ” Intelligence and wit flash through his pages .
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It was not in any sense an established national capital . The departments of the Confederate government camped in temporary headquarters , in buildings hastily adapted to their use . The Tredegar Iron Works , which were to the South ...
It was not in any sense an established national capital . The departments of the Confederate government camped in temporary headquarters , in buildings hastily adapted to their use . The Tredegar Iron Works , which were to the South ...
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Grant's Common Sense 203 he had the vision to see the war in its larger and simpler aspects . In his mind the successful conduct of the war implied only two modes of action . One was to defeat the Confederate armies , and the other was ...
Grant's Common Sense 203 he had the vision to see the war in its larger and simpler aspects . In his mind the successful conduct of the war implied only two modes of action . One was to defeat the Confederate armies , and the other was ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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