One thing I like about this book is it's fair. Twice being put in charge of the Army of the Potomac he was the Civil War version of a deer in the headlights being frozen into an inability to take any action. Very Charismatic and a brilliant administrator but also a man who suffered from bouts of paranoia and indecisiveness to the point that he would become incapable of taking any action with his army. He commanded the AOP for only 18 months but his shadow hung over it for the entire war. George McClellan to me is perhaps one of the most fascinating man of the Civil War. He follows Mac's life as a child prodigy at West Point, through his Civil War years and beyond. I've been facinated with McClellan for several years now and Stephen Sears's book is without question the best ever written about the Young Napoleon.
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