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Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
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Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs, slaves, United States army, United States presidents, United States generals, United States history, United States Civil War, United States politics, United States government, biography, Presidents & Heads of State, military, United States, Presidents, Generals, United States. Army, Grant, ulysses s. (ulysses simpson), 1822-1885, United states, army, biography, Presidents, united states, Generals, biography, United states, politics and government, 1865-1900, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2017-10-29, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877.), American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658People
Ulysses S. Grant, Ferdinand Ward, Jefferson Davis, Democrats, Republicans, Julia Grant, Jesse Grant, Orvil Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Andrew Johnson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Robert E. Lee, Lew Wallace, William Tecumseh Sherman, George McClellan, Winfield Scott, Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, George Meade, Joseph HookerShowing 5 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Includes bibliographical references pages 1291-1479).
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Grant is a 2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow. Grant, a Union general during the Civil War, served two terms as president, from 1869 to 1877. Chernow asserts that both Grant's command of the Overland campaign and his presidency have been seen in an undeservedly negative light.
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- Grant (book) - Wikipedia
- Grant by Ron Chernow review – booze, slavery and an argument for greatness (theguardian.com)
- In Ron Chernow’s ‘Grant,’ an American Giant’s Makeover Continues (nytimes.com)
- Pour One Out for Ulysses S. Grant (newyorker.com)
- New York Times review
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