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T. Harry Williams

Born

in Vinegar Hill Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, The United States

May 19, 1909

Died

July 06, 1979

Genre

History, Biographies & Memoirs

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T. Harry Williams (Thomas Harry Williams) was an historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose writing career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death in 1979. Williams is perhaps best known for his American Civil War study, Lincoln and His Generals, a "Book of the Month" selection from 1952, and Huey Long, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1970.

Williams passed away approximately two months after retirement due to complications from pneumonia.

In 1998, Williams was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield. ...more

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	Huey Long 4.24 avg rating — 2,197 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln and His Generals 4.18 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 1952 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray 4.07 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1955 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McClellan, Sherman, and Grant 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hayes of the Twenty-Third: The Civil War Volunteer Officer 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of American Wars from Colonial Times to World War I 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln and the Radicals 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1960 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Union Restored 1861-1876 (The Life History of the United States - Volume 6) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life History of the United States, Volume 5: 1849-1965, The Union Squandered 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the United States [to 1877] by T. Harry Williams, Richard Nelson Current, Frank Freidel 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it.”
― T. Harry Williams, McClellan, Sherman, and Grant

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