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Between 1861 and 1865 seven men commanded the North's Army of the Potomac. All found themselves, one by one, pitted against a soldier of consummate ability, Robert E. Lee. How did they react to this supreme test? What were their patterns of conduct in battle and at the conference table? This book takes the measure of each soldier at the crucial moment of his life and the life of the nation.

This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century.

Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in "Cannery Row," Slim in "Of Mice and Men," Jim Casy in "The Grapes of Wrath," and Lee in "East of Eden." The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with such prominent thinkers and artists...

Hassler s history will survive as our most detailed narrative of the first day s battle, examining the day s action so minutely that no succeeding historian of Gettysburg will be able to ignore it. Hassler s book has solid virtues in addition to its thoroughness of detail: it offers a persuasive argument that the first day s events largely determined the eventual outcome of the battle; Hassler displays uncommonly complete knowledge of the battlefield terrain and] makes uniquely good use of the information that can be gleaned from the monuments and markers on the battlefield. American...