Book Launch New Frank Varney Book

[David Moore]

General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War

A leader in military and general history book publishing.

www.savasbeatie.com

 

[uaskme]

On my list!

Powell and Daniels aren't Grant Haters. Joe Rose isn't either, gets cast that way.

 

[DanSBHawk]

Hopefully Ned Baldwin will get a chance to review the book and see how it compares to Varney's first book.

 

[Belfoured]

Hopefully Ned Baldwin will get a chance to review the book and see how it compares to Varney's first book.

And hopefully if he finds any documented errors in use of sources, etc that won't get rejected as coming from a "Grant Fanboy"

 

[NedBaldwin]

Hopefully Ned Baldwin will get a chance to review the book and see how it compares to Varney's first book.

So much pressure!
Well i guess i better order it!

 

[wausaubob]

Grant, the guy who visited the political elite of Britain, had dinner with Queen Victoria, an audience with the Pope, met the Emperor of Japan, shared stories and a drink with Bismark? That Grant?
Grant, who died of cancer, in a bed, surrounded by his family and was waked by funeral parade in New York City? Even the Confederates were at the funeral.
And what happened to the nation that Grant helped reunify? Didn't it quickly become a leading industrial power and the dominant super power of the following century?
Mr. Varney is free to write whatever he wishes, but freedom also means were are not obliged to read it.

 

[wausaubob]

So much pressure!
Well i guess i better order it!

Its a tough job, but someone has to do it.

 

[Nathan Towne]

I got a copy. I wasn't very impressed with the first book, but we shall see. Hopefully, it is valuable in the coverage of Warren.

 

[rpkennedy]

I got a copy. I wasn't very impressed with the first book, but we shall see. Hopefully, it is valuable in the coverage of Warren.

Honestly, if there had been a good alternative available, Warren should have been relieved after the Overland Campaign.

Ryan

 

[David Moore]

On my list!

Powell and Daniels aren't Grant Haters. Joe Rose isn't either, gets cast that way.

I'm not either. I actually sympathize with a man who was carrying out another man's ambitions. Washburne's.

 

[David Moore]

Hopefully Ned Baldwin will get a chance to review the book and see how it compares to Varney's first book.

Why don't you read it and make up your own mind?

 

[David Moore]

Grant, the guy who visited the political elite of Britain, had dinner with Queen Victoria, an audience with the Pope, met the Emperor of Japan, shared stories and a drink with Bismark? That Grant?
Grant, who died of cancer, in a bed, surrounded by his family and was waked by funeral parade in New York City? Even the Confederates were at the funeral.
And what happened to the nation that Grant helped reunify? Didn't it quickly become a leading industrial power and the dominant super power of the following century?
Mr. Varney is free to write whatever he wishes, but freedom also means were are not obliged to read it.

The man who barely mentions Rawlins or Washburne in his double volume memoirs?
The man who never spoke to Washburne again when he felt Washburne denied him a chance at a third presidential term?
Grant responsible for the industrialization of the US? No Grant No economic superpower?
An interesting and novel idea.
Confederates were at many if not most Union generals' funerals including Rosecrans who outlived almost everyone. Careful however Confederates at funerals not helpful in today's hagiography.
Was Grant the only person to meet the luminaires you mention? Is it really that big a deal? He was an ex president after all. Btw Rosecrans corresponded some with Pope Pius IX. I don't know what they discussed. He also conversed with some other prominent people including Mexican officials.
You are under no obligation to read anything but maybe you should be more guarded in your opinions about things you've read little about.

 

[DanSBHawk]

Why don't you read it and make up your own mind?

I'm sure I will when I can borrow it online or at the library. That's how I read Varney's first book and found even more inaccuracies than Ned had identified.

I'm not planning on spending money on Varney's book however.

 

[Nathan Towne]

Honestly, if there had been a good alternative available, Warren should have been relieved after the Overland Campaign.

Ryan

Warren is a fascinating person. I don't disagree with you. I really sympathize with him at Morton's Ford and elsewhere.

I was reading some of the Varney book this morning. I will let you know my thoughts.

 

[Lubliner]

No mention of Indian Policies, and economic mishaps or troubles yet, and I am still all ears. And Twain...?
Lubliner.

 

[tony_gunter]

Why don't you read it and make up your own mind?

Because the first was so riddled with errors? Is this a trick question?

 

[tony_gunter]

Honestly, if there had been a good alternative available, Warren should have been relieved after the Overland Campaign.

Ryan

Warren should have been promoted on the spot after every battle, simply for the awesomeness of his first name.

 

[rpkennedy]

Warren should have been promoted on the spot after every battle, simply for the awesomeness of his first name.

I really want to know how his name was actually pronounced. There is a town in northern New York called Gouverneur (named after Gouverneur Morris) and it's pronounced "Guv-uh-NEW-er". Most historians generally pronounce it "GOOV-uh-ner" and that just doesn't sound right to me.

Ryan

 

[David Moore]

I really want to know how his name was actually pronounced. There is a town in northern New York called Gouverneur (named after Gouverneur Morris) and it's pronounced "Guv-uh-NEW-er". Most historians generally pronounce it "GOOV-uh-ner" and that just doesn't sound right to me.

Ryan

We may never know. People in Sunbury Ohio -hometown of Rosecrans believe his name was pronounced Ross-a-crans. Soldiers called him Rosey or Rosie so they probably pronounced it like the flower.

 

[Belfoured]

I really want to know how his name was actually pronounced. There is a town in northern New York called Gouverneur (named after Gouverneur Morris) and it's pronounced "Guv-uh-NEW-er". Most historians generally pronounce it "GOOV-uh-ner" and that just doesn't sound right to me.

Ryan

Believe it or not, somebody once told me about one guy (name escapes me) who in presentations would refer to him as "G.K." for that reason.