Quotes by H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

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He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. — H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success. — H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Proving himself to himself was no small matter. — H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them. — H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Even when he played, he made a business of it. — H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing. — H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace