Best Ulysses S Grant Biography - April 2024

Grant

The #1 New York Times bestseller.New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.   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 ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159420487X
• ASIN: 159420487X
• ISBN: 9781594204876
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

• ASIN: B0011DIF02
• ASIN: B0011DIF02
• Manufacturer: LeClue [Kindle]

Grant

• ASIN: B000FC0PCQ
• ASIN: B000FC0PCQ
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Grant and Sherman: Civil War Memoirs (2 Volumes)

For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Library of America re-issues the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman in a handsome, newly designed case. An ailing Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. John Keegan has called it "perhaps the most revelatory autobiography of high command to exist in any language." The Library of America's edition of Grant's Memoirs includes 175 of his letters to Lincoln, Sherman, and his wife, Julia, among others. Hailed as ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598531050
• ASIN: 1598531050
• ISBN: 1598531050
• Brand: Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Ulysses S Grant: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents Book 18)

Ulysses S Grant* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.The list of American war heroes who went on to become presidents includes men as little remembered as Zachary Taylor and as famous as Dwight D. Eisenhower. While venerable though these men are and significant their place in American history, they cannot equal the status of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who rose through the ranks from virtual obscurity to command. Inside you will read about...✓ The Undistinguished Hiram Ulysses Gra... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N9SB2NE
• ASIN: B01N9SB2NE

The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2.

• ASIN: B0082PG19Y
• ASIN: B0082PG19Y

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

• ASIN: 1400069025
• ASIN: 1400069025
• ISBN: 1400069025
• Brand: RANDOM HOUSE
• Manufacturer: Random House

Ulysses S. Grant: The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as wellAs a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms-the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But his presidency is another matter-the most common word used to characterize it is "scandal." Grant is routinely portrayed as a man out of his depth, whose trusting nature and hands-off management style opened the federal coffers to unprecedented plunder. But t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008YH36IE
• ASIN: B008YH36IE
• Manufacturer: Times Books

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition

“This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader’s enjoyment of Grant’s fluent narrative.”―Ron Chernow, author of GrantUlysses S. Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents, including Cl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0674976290
• ASIN: 0674976290
• ISBN: 0674976290
• Brand: BELKNAP
• Manufacturer: Belknap Press

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - Volume 1

• ASIN: B0082RZGNY
• ASIN: B0082RZGNY

Ulysses S. Grant: The War Years

Apart from Abraham Lincoln the most famous name of the Civil War is undoubtedly that of Ulysses S. Grant. He was the first Lieutenant General created by the American army since George Washington. After the war, he was the only president between Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson to be elected to two successive terms in office. His legacy as a military strategist is unparalleled to this day: American victory in the first and second world wars was achieved by upholding the strategic doctrine of overwhelming force that Grant established in his relentless pursuit of Robert E. Lee during the Overland campa... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075ZJ4P46
• ASIN: B075ZJ4P46
• Manufacturer: Make Profits Easy LLC

Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America)

Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose, and simple compassion are evident throughout this vivid and deeply moving account, which has been acclaimed by readers as diverse asMark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson. Annotated and complete with detailed maps, battle plans, and facsimiles reproduced from the origina... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0940450585
• ASIN: 0940450585
• ISBN: 9780940450585
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant, Includes Both Volumes (Optimized for Kindle)

• ASIN: B002UKOLLM
• ASIN: B002UKOLLM

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Ulysses Grant emerges in this masterful biography as a genius in battle and a driven president to a divided country, who remained fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field who made the sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freed men in the South. He allowed the American Indians to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. In this sweeping and majestic narrative, bestselling author H.W. Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provid... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307475158
• ASIN: 0307475158
• ISBN: 0307475158
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ul... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079KV32KF
• ASIN: B079KV32KF
• Manufacturer: Random House

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

9781596059993

• UPC: 5901782
• Rating: 4.333

American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood

• UPC: 55520591
• Rating: 4.6

The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life

• UPC: 388160947

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant : The Complete Annotated Edition

This is the first complete annotated edition of Grant's memoirs, fully representing the great military leader's thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War--including the antebellum era and the Mexican

• UPC: 55970906
• Rating: 4.0

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) : In Two Volumes (Vol. I & II)

9780760749906

• UPC: 14911644
• Rating: 4.0

Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?

Ulysses S

• UPC: 31892712

Ulysses S. Grant - eBook

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as wellAs a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms-the man who turned

• UPC: 631697323
• Rating: 2.0

The Mask of Command : Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant, Hitler, and the Nature of Lea dership

In this incisive analysis of generals, John Keegan examines the meaning of heroism as represented by Alexander the Great, Wellington, Grant, and Hitler, and argues that generalship, like warfare itself, is a cultural activity that

• UPC: 519288
• Rating: 4.333

Ulysses S. Grant - Audiobook

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as wellAs a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned

• UPC: 614225107
• Rating: 2.0

Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher - eBook

Ulysses S. Grant is often accused of being a cold-hearted butcher of his troops. In Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher, historian Edward H. Bonekemper III proves that Grant's casualty rates actually compared

• UPC: 895802837
• Rating: 4.667