William S. McFeely (1930–2019)
Author of Grant: A Biography
About the Author
McFeely has written the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Grant, as well as other important works of history. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Associated Works
Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (1990) — Editor, some editions — 1,308 copies
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Contributor — 109 copies
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (1997) — Editor, some editions — 51 copies
The National Experience: A History of the United States to 1877, Part One (1968) — some editions — 47 copies
Region, Race and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (1982) — Contributor — 19 copies
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- Canonical name
- McFeely, William S.
- Birthdate
- 1930-09-25
- Date of death
- 2019-12-11
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts, USA
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Amherst College (BA) (1952)
Yale University (PhD) (American Studies) (1966) - Occupations
- historian
- Organizations
- University of Georgia
Harvard University
Mount Holyoke College
Yale University - Awards and honors
- Avery O. Craven Award (1992)
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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One issue. The author, McFeely, gets very Freudian many times. Every chapter or so, someone is gazing at Douglass sexually or homosexually or some incident is imbued with sexual feeling, repressed or subconscious. While that might sometimes be the case, it is mere supposition on McFeely's part. McFeely often puts the whippings of slaves as punishment in sexual terms. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a whipping is just a whipping. Antebellum Southern slavery had a lot of sexual elements (Douglass's account of his bare-breasted auntie being whipped was definitely a case of sexual jealousy, for instance), but it was not a conspiracy of repressed bisexuals wishing they could have sex with their male slaves (Covey's beating of Douglass probably wasn't sexual in the least, however McFeely may suggest it was). (Shouldn't someone named "McFeely" be wary of Freudian interpretations?)… (more)