Lee and Grant
Published by Published in association with the Virginia Historical Society
Publish Date — February 2008 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 360 pages, 292 x 229mm (9 x 11 ½ in.)
Illustrations — 175 colour and 100 b&w illustrations
Hardback price — UK £35.00 / US $65.00
ISBN — 1904832369
ISBN — 9781904832362
Book Details (pdf) — Lee_and_Grant_ai2.pdf
Sales Points
Publication accompanies a travelling exhibition with the following venues: Virginia Historical Society (October 2007); Missouri Historical Society (spring 2008); New-York Historical Society (fall 2008); Museum of Southern History, Houston (spring 2009) and Atlanta History Center (fall 2009)
Includes a major re-assessment, by two leading American historians, of the development of historical thought and popular attitudes towards both figures in the years since the outbreak of the Civil War
Covers the entirety of both these major figures’ lives, from their early education and military training at West Point, through the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, to their retirement, examining how their lives interconnected and how they diverged
Features over 270 fascinating illustrations, including the generals’ uniforms and accoutrements, letters, rare photographs and newly-discovered paintings, prints, engravings and images from popular culture
Presents an enormous amount of information on both the Grant and the Lee families
Addresses the question, how should Lee and Grant be evaluated in 2007, the 200th anniversary of Lee’s birth?
About the Book
Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are without a doubt two of the most important, and heavily published about, figures in nineteenth-century American history. Their often-times controversial characters, lives and careers are intrinsically linked with the American Civil War, and subsequent written histories on both individuals have frequently been shaped by the positions and roles both took up during the Civil War.
However, curiously, despite the enormous amount of published material on the Civil War, including individual biographies of Lee and Grant, there is almost nothing that has been published which looks at these two figures together and which compares them over an extended period of time. This new, fully illustrated book is the first to combine fascinating images and an extensive well-researched and written narrative text. Together with the accompanying touring exhibition, it provides a major re-assessment of the lives, careers and historical impact of Lee and Grant.
This heavily illustrated volume contains over 270 images – 175 of which are in colour – and brings together a huge number of pictorial representations of both Grant and Lee, by a wide range of artists, as well as photographs and engravings, and images from popular culture. The lengthy narrative text, written by leading authors William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton, covers the entirety of both these major figures’ lives, from their early education and military training at West Point, through the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, to their retirement, and how they interconnected and how they diverged. It also features a wealth of new information about the Grant and the Lee families.
