The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Manuscripts, American
ISBN : 9780809321971
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Manuscripts, American
ISBN : 9780809321971
Author : John Y. Simon
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 9780809321971
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : New York, C. L. Webster & Company
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Generals
ISBN :
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN :
Author : Ron Chernow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052552195X
The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant’s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him “the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.” After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as “nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.” Chernow’s probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads • Amazon • The New York Times • Newsday • BookPage • Barnes and Noble • Wall Street Journal
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Grant, Ulysses S.
ISBN : 9780809308804
Author : John Y. Simon
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Manuscripts, American
ISBN : 9780809311170
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Manuscripts, American
ISBN : 9780809327751
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Manuscripts, American
ISBN : 9780809303663
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Archival resources
ISBN :