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Series
Library of America volume 50
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Many modern historians have painted Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher, a drunk, and a failure as president. Others have argued the exact opposite and portray him with saintlike levels of ethic and intellect.
In Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822—1865, historian Brooks D. Simpson takes neither approach, recognizing Grant as a complex and human figure with human faults, strengths, and motivations. Simpson offers a balanced and complete study...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders. The greatest hero of the Civil War, Grant was a brilliant military strategist, but as a president, he lacked the political skills to deal with the era.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Completed a short time before his death in 1885, the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is recognized today as one of the most significant American military memoirs of all time. In an honest and intelligent voice, the celebrated Civil War general and former President offers a detailed and intimate telling of the events of the Mexican-American war, and the American Civil War and his role within it as a Union General.
At the time of its publication,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
By May 1864, General Robert E. Lee had been transformed from a young soldier into a gray-haired patriarch of the Confederate cause. As Lee struggled to keep his ragged soldiers alive, he faced pressure from two fronts. Grant's Union Army not only had superior numbers, but a steadfast infra-structure or railroads and industrialized supply routes. Lee's Last Campaign is a triumph of historic research and elegant writing. In this essential analysis of...
20) Grant
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1074 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated 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 inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
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