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Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History
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August 1, 2005|
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Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-774-0.)
Allan Peskin is a highly respected historian whose many books and articles on the Gilded Age are standards in the field. Thus it is surprising to find Peskin completing a biography of a major figure of the earlier years of the nineteenth century. Peskin provides an explanation. After completing his biography of James A. Garfield, he writes, he "thought it might be fun to dip into the first half of the ...
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