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Jack Hurst has written five books, four on the American Civil War era. The most recent--America's Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant from Farm Boy to Shiloh--is an unconventional military biography that attempts to explain why Grant was so much more successful than the war's other high-ranking generals, Union or Confederate. Like virtually all of them, Grant was a West Pointer, so formal military education cannot be the answer. What was different about Grant was his more deprived background and harder life leading up to his greatest campaigns. The war's other ranking generals virtually all hailed from their societies' most comfortable, wealthy, and elite levels. Hurst's other books are similarly compelling. Men of Fire studies Grant and another prominent Civil War general, the fierce Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest, in the war's first notable Union conquests: Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee in Born to Battle follows the fiery tra

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Books by Jack Hurst

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
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Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War
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Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest--Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
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Nashville's Grand Ole Opry: The First Fifty Years
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Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War
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America’s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh
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Jack Hurst is a historian and former journalist who has written for newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Nashville Tennessean.

Mr. Hurst's books include Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War, and Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest—Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga.

A native of Maryville, Tennessee and a descendant of both Union and Confederate soldiers, he currently lives with his wife outside Nashville, Tennessee.

The first significant Union victory in the Civil War is now honored at one of the newest National Monuments. It was a battle too often ignored bygd historians and the public.

With his command threatened by allegations of drunkenness, Ulysses S. Grant went on the attack, won two major victories, demanded “Unconditional Surrender,” and nearly split the Confederacy in half.

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