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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Record Added: 10/13/2020
Author 
Setting United States
Topic Biography
Publisher Harvard University Press
ISBN 0674976290   Year 2017
Age Adult   Pages 816
Description Printed dustjacket
 
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, clarifying the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. An introduction contextualizes Grant’s life and significance, and lucid editorial commentary allows his voice and narrative to shine through.

With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S. Grant Association’s Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the pre-war years, the war with Mexico, and the Civil War. Grant provides essential insight into how rigorously these events tested America’s democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order.