Personal Memoirs
Ulysses S. Grant
$37.90
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
15 June 1999
Summary
“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 mesmer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375752285 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375752285 |
| Author: | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Publisher: | Modern Library |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Edition: | 1999th |
| Release Date: | 15 June 1999 |
| Weight: | 916g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 155mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Modern Library War |
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Critics Review
“The best [memoirs] of any general’s since Caesar.”
“The best [memoirs] of any general’s since Caesar.” –Mark Twain “A unique expression of the national character….[Grant] has conveyed the suspense which was felt by himself and his army and by all who believed in the Union cause. The reader finds himself…on edge toknow how the Civil War is coming out.” –Edmund Wilson
Ulysses S. Grant
John Y. Simon is Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and Pro-fessor of History at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
David L. Wilson is Adjunct Associate Professor of His-tory at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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