A well-known—albeit colorized—portrait graces the cover of James Lee McDonough's new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman. The image speaks volumes. Sherman's hard, intense look seems to match his relentless efforts to drive the rigors of war deep into the Confederate heartland, and the frazzled, unkempt hair (more noticeable in the original black-and-white) speaks to Sherman's restless and sometimes eccentric energy, which marked so much of the his life and military career. Well-researched in Sherman's voluminous correspondence, up-to-date on recent scholarship, and briskly written, McDonough's biography serves as a worthy introduction to this pivotal and heterodox general.
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