Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform.(Review) (book review)
Historian, The, June, 2000
Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999, $35.00.)
The Award Committee of the Civil War Roundtable of New York presented its Fletcher Pratt Literary Award to Richard L. Kiper for his biography, Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. Calling the study a balanced and sympathetic treatment of its subject, the committee described the book as providing many insights into the politics of the American Civil War as well as the personalities and relationships among the army's senior officers. McClernand, a leading Democratic Member of Congress from Illinois, was a highly controversial officer who, the author asserts, served his country well. As a general...
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