Around the World with General Grant
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2002
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Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6950-1 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6950-1 (ISBN)
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After leaving the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant embarked on an around-the-world tour, accompanied by journalist John Russell Young. This work contains Young's record of every detail of the grand tour - the sightseeing, official visits, travel conditions, and Grant's conversations.
After leaving the office of the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant embarked on a journey worthy of his legendary namesake, an around-the-world tour that took him from Europe to the Middle East and Asia over two and one-half years. Accompanying Grant was journalist John Russell Young, a wartime associate who was working in Europe as a correspondent for the "New York Herald" when Grant first arrived in England. On assignment for the "Herald", Young joined the former president's entourage and faithfully recorded every detail of the grand tour - the sightseeing, official visits, travel conditions, and Grant's candid discussions with heads of state and other notables about the Civil War and other matters of state. So far from home, Grant felt free to speak his mind about his fellow Union officers, his Confederate adversaries, and the conduct of the war, at far more length than he would in his celebrated but close-to-the-vest memoirs. These salty reminiscences of the war give this travelogue its greatest importance for posterity.
First published in two volumes in 1879, Young's account has been abridged by historian Michael Fellman and is now available to modern readers in a single volume that, besides his adventures abroad, distills Grant's unvarnished memories and judgements of his wartime and executive experiences. It contains Grant's opinions of such Civil War figures as Stonewall Jackson and George McClellan. This is an intimate portrait of one of America's most brilliant - and thoughtful -military men. It is also a travel book, filled with reflections on exotic places and on Western, particularly British, imperialism as America was on the reluctant verge of entering the world stage.
After leaving the office of the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant embarked on a journey worthy of his legendary namesake, an around-the-world tour that took him from Europe to the Middle East and Asia over two and one-half years. Accompanying Grant was journalist John Russell Young, a wartime associate who was working in Europe as a correspondent for the "New York Herald" when Grant first arrived in England. On assignment for the "Herald", Young joined the former president's entourage and faithfully recorded every detail of the grand tour - the sightseeing, official visits, travel conditions, and Grant's candid discussions with heads of state and other notables about the Civil War and other matters of state. So far from home, Grant felt free to speak his mind about his fellow Union officers, his Confederate adversaries, and the conduct of the war, at far more length than he would in his celebrated but close-to-the-vest memoirs. These salty reminiscences of the war give this travelogue its greatest importance for posterity.
First published in two volumes in 1879, Young's account has been abridged by historian Michael Fellman and is now available to modern readers in a single volume that, besides his adventures abroad, distills Grant's unvarnished memories and judgements of his wartime and executive experiences. It contains Grant's opinions of such Civil War figures as Stonewall Jackson and George McClellan. This is an intimate portrait of one of America's most brilliant - and thoughtful -military men. It is also a travel book, filled with reflections on exotic places and on Western, particularly British, imperialism as America was on the reluctant verge of entering the world stage.
John Russell Young (1840-99) was born in Pennsylvania and started his newspaper career with the Philadelphia Press, accompanying the Army of the Potomac as a war correspondent for that paper during the Civil War. From 1866 to 1869, he served as managing editor of the New York Tribune and from 1871 to 1877, he was the European correspondent for the New York Herald. Young was the American minister to China from 1882 to 1885, and in 1897 was made librarian of Congress. Michael Fellman is a professor of history at Simon Fraser University and the author of five books, including The Making of Robert E. Lee and Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman. He is coauthor of "This Terrible War": The American Civil War and Its Aftermath.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.10.2002 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 72 halftones, 1 line drawing |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-6950-1 / 0801869501 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-6950-1 / 9780801869501 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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