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Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the time of his death, 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...
3) Crucible of command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee-- the war they fought, the peace they forged
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leaders — how they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation
4) Grant
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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. Before the...
Author
Series
Frontier forensic mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
411 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Living in semiretirement with Kai, his soon to be wife, Murphy is called back to action by his former boss, ex-President Grant. Writing his memoirs, Grant is about to embark on a cross-country speaking tour and wants Murphy to act as his private bodyguard. Murphy agrees and the tour starts without a hitch until they reach Washington DC. At a prominent university in the Washington area, a man suddenly stands in the middle of Grant's lecture, pulls...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
23 audio discs (29 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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. Before the...
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