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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 784 pages ; 25 cm
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Modern Library paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 702 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Among the autobiographies of great military leaders, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War rescued him, these memoirs are a deeply moving account of a brilliant man.
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