In this illuminating volume, Justin Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant's midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of US and European military history and nineteenth-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications.

Shows how the financial control of the film industry in the hands of the major studios and distributors actually translates into creative control of the industry. The text discusses the pros and cons of the debate relating to the industry's so-called net profit problem.

This well-crafted and engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and his wife, Eliza Clark Garrett, tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man's struggle to succeed and the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy.