Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(book by Allan Peskin)(Book Review)

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Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2003. 344 pages. $49.00. Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Morea, Ph.D., Academy Professor and Chief, Military History Division, Department of History, US Military Academy.

Not long ago, Winfield Scott, who towered literally and figuratively over the American Army for 50 years, seemed to have lost the attention of military biographers. Winslow Elliott's eloquent Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man (1937) stood as the definitive and unchallenged treatment of ...

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