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Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(Book review)
The Historian
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September 22, 2005|
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Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 328. $49.00.)
Winfield Scott has been the subject of several excellent biographies in recent years, each taking a different approach to this fascinating and complex man. Timothy Johnson in his 1998 biography saw Scott not only as an agent for professionalism in the U.S. Army but also as a man shaped by his ego and driven by his ambition. Moreover, Johnson revealed Scott as curiously unmoved by the deep social and political changes that took place during ...
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