MixedThe Dallas Morning NewsRevisionist history is not McDonough's aim here. He views Sherman through a conventional lens that focuses on the records of his subject's life while blurring the psychology of this complex figure who was second to Ulysses Grant as the major military leader of the time ... Civil War buffs should appreciate McDonough's accounts of the battles, and history enthusiasts his concise descriptions of the events that led to the war. Readers familiar with contemporary psychoanalytic biographies will find no clues to Sherman's interior life. Echoing the lament 'Where are the editors?' this biographer seemed to have emptied his years of research into his book, especially the contents of many letters that should have been trimmed.