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In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant’s early life and his armed forces job for insights into his great battlefield successes as well as his personal misfortunes. Longacre specializes in Grant’s boyhood and early marriage; his moral, ethical, and spiritual views; his stressed military job; his strained connections with wartime superiors; and, especially, his weakness for alcoholic beverages, which exerted a major effect on both his armed forces and civilian careers. Longacre, to a diploma that no other historian did before, investigates Grant’s alcoholism in light of his devout spiritual affiliations, and the role these sometimes conflicting makes experienced on his armed forces career and conduct. Longacre’s conclusions present a fresh and surprising perspective on the ever-fascinating life of General Grant.