William S. McFeely (1930–2019)
Auteur van Grant: A Biography
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McFeely has written the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Grant, as well as other important works of history. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (1990) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 1,305 exemplaren
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Medewerker — 109 exemplaren
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (1997) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 50 exemplaren
The National Experience: A History of the United States to 1877, Part One (1968) — sommige edities — 47 exemplaren
Region, Race and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (1982) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
Inside the Confederate nation : essays in honor of Emory M. Thomas (2005) — Medewerker — 16 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- McFeely, William S.
- Geboortedatum
- 1930-09-25
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2019-12-11
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts, USA
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- Amherst College (BA) (1952)
Yale University (PhD) (American Studies) (1966) - Beroepen
- historian
- Organisaties
- University of Georgia
Harvard University
Mount Holyoke College
Yale University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Avery O. Craven Award (1992)
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Although the author arrives at just conclusions about much of Ulysses S. Grant's generalship and personality—he dares to challenge the standard view of Grant as a great commander with a firmly upright character—the book's grasp of the military aspects of the Civil War is sometimes lacking. It's very elegantly written, which is hardly surprising for a winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
1906 Grant: A Biography, by William S. McFeeley (read 9 Feb 1985) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1982) I found this book well worth reading. It is excellent on most of Grant's career. McFeeley says good things about Grant as a general, but has little good to say about him as a president. The book was very opinionated in regard to the failure of the Republicans to uphold the rights of blacks after the Civil War, but I can find the attitude understandable. It would have required an iron-fisted military rule to maintain the Reconstruction governments.… (meer)
This is McFeely's award winning biography of Grant. It is pretty evenly divided between his military and poltical career. A worthwhile read, though there are more recent biographies of this important military and political figure.
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One issue. The author, McFeely, gets very Freudian many times. Every chapter or so, someone is gazing at Douglass sexually or homosexually or some incident is imbued with sexual feeling, repressed or subconscious. While that might sometimes be the case, it is mere supposition on McFeely's part. McFeely often puts the whippings of slaves as punishment in sexual terms. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a whipping is just a whipping. Antebellum Southern slavery had a lot of sexual elements (Douglass's account of his bare-breasted auntie being whipped was definitely a case of sexual jealousy, for instance), but it was not a conspiracy of repressed bisexuals wishing they could have sex with their male slaves (Covey's beating of Douglass probably wasn't sexual in the least, however McFeely may suggest it was). (Shouldn't someone named "McFeely" be wary of Freudian interpretations?)… (meer)