Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: Two Volumes in One (Classic Reprint)

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Among the autobiographies of generals and statesmen, the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ranks with the greatest. Mark Twain called it ”the best of any general's since Caesar.” And few historians would disagree. Unquestionably, it is the finest literary achievement by any American president, the frankest, least pretentious, most nearly tragic account we have of the failings and triumphs of leadership.Written as Grant was dying of cancer, it tells the straightforward story of his boyhood in Ohio, graduation from West Point, and the grimy military campaigns in the West and Mexico that ended with his resignation in disgrace and a return to Galena where he ran the family store. Then began the rebellion that broke the Union and recast Grant's fortune: the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Appomattox, Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, Vicksburg and Lookout Mountain, the bloody Wilderness campaign, Sherman's ”March to the Sea,”. Grant the tactician, the victim of his friends, the alcoholic, the plain and tough professional soldier, the ideal commanderall of these images are brightened in the work of Grant the writer as he assesses himself and the events that forged his character.

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Da Capo Press

"One of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature." --William McFeeley Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically "rescued" him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man, told with great courage as he reflects on the fortunes that shaped his life and his character. Written under excruciating circumstances (as Grant was dying of throat cancer), encouraged and edited from its very inception by Mark Twain, it is a triumph of the art of autobiography. The books in the Modern Library War series have been chosen by series editor Caleb Carr according to the significance of their subject matter, their contribution to the field of military history, and their literary merit.

Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (Modern Library War)

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Mr. Lincoln's General, U.S. Grant: An Illustrated Autobiography

Bonanza Books

After three years of fighting, President Abraham Lincoln had seen little progress in Virginia. The war was at a stalemate. Then, Lincoln summoned General Ulysses S Grant to come East. In little over a year, the armed conflict ended, the Union was preserved, and slavery was abolished. This book details how these triumphs were achieved.

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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Leather bound Gold decorated volume that contains both the classics of the Civil War.

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant; Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Part Three (The Wilderness Campaign; Surrender at Appomattox)

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Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant

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