Grant's Final Victory : Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year

from nbmars

This book is not about Grant's military campaigns; rather, it concerns his struggle to finish his still-celebrated memoirs before cancer killed him, so that his wife and children would have an income after he died. It is also a love story: about how so many people adored Grant for his goodness an...

from SamSattler

The much deserved fame and prestige that Ulysses S. Grant gained during America's Civil War carried him all the way to the White House where he served two terms as President of the United States (1869-1877). Prior to the war, most who knew Grant probably considered him a failure. Within a few yea...

from ALincolnNut

Historian Charles Bracelen Flood has come full circle. Many years ago he wrote a best-selling volume on Robert E. Lee's life after the Civil War. Now he offers a book focusing on the end of the life of the most famous Union general: "Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year." Af...

from BellaFoxx

For some reason, despite the fact that the title is not "Memoirs" and the author is not named Ulysses S. Grant, I thought this was Grant's autobiography and the description was telling us he wrote it in the last year of his life. That is totally not the case and makes me think I am either losing ...

from Arkrayder

This book is not about the Union general's final wartime campaign but his struggle to complete his memoirs before cancer takes his life. The plague of events that beset Grant after his presidency and retirement to private life may surprise readers. Following his resignation from the army in 1854,...