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American hero, American myth

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U.S. Grant

American hero, American myth

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Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In an insightful blend of biography and cultural history, Joan Waugh traces Grant's shifting national and international reputation, illuminating the role of memory in our understanding of American history. Waugh reveals how Grant became the embodiment of the American nation in the decades after the Civil War. - Jacket flap.

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Chapel Hill

Table of Contents

Introduction
Youth
The magnanimous general
A great soldier might be a baby politician
The most famous living American
Historian of the Union cause
Pageantry of woe : the funeral of U. S. Grant
The nation's greatest hero should rest in the nation's greatest city
Who's [really] buried in Grant's tomb?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Civil War America
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.8/2092, B
Library of Congress
E672 .W38 2009, E672.W38 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
373 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23223996M
Internet Archive
usgrantamericanh00waug
ISBN 10
0807833177
ISBN 13
9780807833179
LCCN
2009018550
OCLC/WorldCat
317929504
Library Thing
8453095
Goodreads
6800854

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