Press Release--Grant Under Fire

Grant Under Fire

An Exposé of Generalship & Character in the American Civil War

A book by Joseph A. Rose challenges Ulysses S. Grant’s reputation as a military genius and as a reliable chronicler of America’s bloodiest conflict.
 

MEDIA CONTACT:Joseph A. Rose Alderhanna Publishing 310 First Avenue #9D New York, NY 10009 (212) 529-1861 josepharose@yahoo.com www.grantunderfire.com ISBN: 978-1943177-004 LCCN: 2015936954 Retail price: $42.50 Illustrations: 37 maps Trim size: 6 x 9 inches Page Count: 816 Binding: Smyth-sewn Cover: Hardbound Cover Art: Four color Publication date: September 15, 2015

Grant suffered the biggest military surprise of the Civil War, committed the worst official act of anti-Semitism on United States soil, and came closest of all federal commanders to losing Washington, D.C. In ranking his generalship above Robert E. Lee’s, Grant’s defenders ignore his crude, pugnacious strategies that resulted in a costly war of attrition and his amateurish tactics of impetuous frontal assaults against fortified positions. In addition, his cronyism poisoned the Union war effort. Praise from noted Civil War scholars: Joseph Rose presents an engaging critical assessment of Grant’s generalship that is destined to provoke lively debate.—Gordon Rhea Rose writes with a vigorous style, and supports his thesis with impressive research and incisive analysis.—Robert I. Girardi Grant Under Fire reveals a general with a dramatically different character than the one he portrayed for himself.—Lawrence Lee Hewitt A well-written, exhaustively researched essay.—John Horn Rose’s prodigious and impeccable scholarship greatly strengthens his penetrating analysis of both Grant the man and Grant the commander.—William Glenn Robertson Just to set the record straight, there should be more future insightful research and commentary, as you will find here.—Wiley Sword It is a must for any serious student of the Civil War.—Frank Varney This groundbreaking work resolves such persistent controversies as Grant’s drunken partying with the enemy on flag-of-truce boats, unfairly blaming Lew Wallace for the slow march to Shiloh, pretending all along to possess a plan to pass Vicksburg, taking credit for the charge up Missionary Ridge, leaving wounded men to die between the lines at Cold Harbor, and mistreating Black soldiers and civilians. In doing so, Grant’s celebrated Personal Memoirs are shown to be unreliable. Joseph A. Rose spent twelve years writing Grant Under Fire, combining original research—rigorously based on primary sources—and investigative historiography. It overturns 150 years of distorted and untrue accounts of Ulysses S. Grant’s military career and comprehensively debunks his outstanding reputation as an officer and a gentleman.