Mr._Graybeard
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Uhh.
Like a lot of biographers, Chernow seemed pretty sympathetic toward his subject. Grant was an honest man, but blind to the avarice of others and too hard-headed to recognize when he was on the wrong track. That stubborn streak served him well in the Wilderness, but I think it was a weakness in an executive role. Even during the war, he was ready to cashier George Thomas just before Thomas demolished the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee.