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2) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. He is often 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 capture 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...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Arnold, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed these works as great literature, and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both credit Grant with...
4) Grant
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Language
English
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Description
Arguing that Grant has been underrated by historians, the author seeks to correct the record with this new assessment of the celebrated Civil War general and Reconstruction-era president.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--
Grant's daring and resolve as a general gained the attention of President Lincoln, then desperate for bold leadership. Appointed as Lieutenant General of the Union Army in March 1864, Grant's...
10) Grant: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Two biographers, one friendly and one contemptuous, describe the enigmatic general and president, Ulysses S. Grant.
12) Ulysses S. Grant
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlas/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less effective occupation tactics.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of Ulysses Grant's pivotal contributions during the Civil War and his presidency covers his defense of black civil rights, his controversial willingness to sacrifice troops to win the war, and the heated criticism over his Reconstruction policies.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
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Description
The first book to explore the important relationship between generals Grant and Sherman discusses their pre-war failures, their subsequent career revivals during the Civil War, and how their relationship helped to save the Union.
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