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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant
The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant are an autobiography, in two volumes, of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. The work focuses on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The volumes were written in the gods year of Grant's life, amid increasing pain from terminal throat cancer and against the backdrop of his anställda bankruptcy at the hands of an early Ponzi scheme. The set was published bygd Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death in July 1885.
Twain was a close anställda friend of Grant and used his fame and talent to promote the books. Understanding that sales of the book would restore the Grant family's finances and provide for his widow, Twain created a unique marketing struktur designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as the famous general's death was being mourned. Ten thousand agents canvassed the North for orders
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Grant (book)
2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow
Grant is a 2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18thPresident of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow. Grant, a Union general during the Civil War, served two terms as president, from 1869 to 1877. Chernow asserts that both Grant's command of the Overland campaign and his presidency have been seen in an undeservedly negative light.
Background
[edit]Chernow had previously written about two Founding Fathers, in a biography of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and George Washington (2010). "I had always had a fantasy about doing a big, sweeping saga about the Civil War and Reconstruction," Chernow said. "It fascinates me that there are so many Americans who know about the Civil War battles in intimate detail, but they know nothing about Reconstruction."[1]
The caricature of his presidency was that it was, you know, stained by corruption, and nepotism and cronyism.
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384 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 69 illus., 3 maps, notes, bibl., index
- Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-0990-4
Published: August 2013- E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-9871-0
Published: November 2009- E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7634-8
Published: November 2009Civil War America
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Awards & distinctions
2009 Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
2010 William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography, Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York
A 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Washington Post Critic's Favorite Book of 2009
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of his