Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography

A biography of the two gifted Civil War commanders from a New York Times–bestselling author: "A great story . . . History at its best" (Publishers Weekly).

Their names are forever linked in the history of the Civil War, but Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant could not have been more dissimilar. Lee came from a world of Southern gentility and aristocratic privilege while Grant had coarser, more common roots in the Midwest. As a young officer trained in the classic mold, Lee graduated from...