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About Personal Memoirs "One of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature." –William McFeeley Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure.
Books. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ... Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of ...
16 de ene. de 2013 · Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Ulysses S. Grant's "The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant." “The most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar.”. So Mark Twain judged The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. Twain, to be sure, had a vested interest in offering such an endorsement. He was, after all, Grant’s friend and ...
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22 de may. de 2018 · The general and U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant wanted the world to know his thoughts about the Civil War and his role in the conflict. The sick, aging warrior put down his pen. It was July 18, 1885, and Ulysses S. Grant had just finished his memoirs. The hero of war had no way of knowing his final determined act would also make him a literary ...
This treasure trove of original documents – many never-before published – creates a uniquely personal, day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War.
1 de ene. de 2011 · 5.0 out of 5 stars Grant's "Memoirs" and Memories of Lee in one nice Gift Book Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2002 This is a lavishly illustrated abridgement of Grant's wonderful "Personal Memoirs" and of Confederate Officer Armistead Long's "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee", two of the major works of the Civil War (Lee never did get around to writing his own memoirs).
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