Us grant biographies
•
&#;Gen. Ulysses S. Grant&#; by artist S.S. Frizzell
We recently asked a number of top Civil War historians to let us know their favorite books about Ulysses S. Grant. The results are below. The books are ranked in order of popularity and accompanied by selected explanations from our panelists.
1. Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant (39% of our historians picked this book)
“One of the classic military autobiographies of all time.”
—Allen C. Guelzo
“Grant had a way of telling his story that left you believing he must be right in a lasting masterpiece of American literature.”
—Brooks D. Simpson
2. U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth by Joan Waugh (18%)
“This book is perfectly balanced in so many ways: It integrates Grant’s military career and his presidency, illuminates his personality as well as his image and legacy, and it both reaches out to general readers and offers news insights for the scholarly experts.”
—Elizabeth Varon
T • Ulysses S. Grant’s ancestors first came to America in , Englishman Mathew Grant landing in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Grant was always extremely proud of his forebears, but the most important individuals in his lineage were his mother and father. His father Jesse spent part of his early years living in the home of the father of the famous abolitionist, John Brown. His quiet mother Hannah Simpson Grant came from Pennsylvania parents who were die-hard Jacksonian Democrats. The two married in June of , and their first born, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April 27, It was only later when the congressman who nominated him for West Point erroneously recorded him as Ulysses S. Grant that he was able to shed the embarrassment of his true initials: H.U.G. Grant’s father sent him to the United States Military Academy where he graduated 21st out of a class of 39, excelling in mathematics. The last year at West Point he roomed with Frederick Dent the son of a slave-hold • Autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant are an autobiography, in two volumes, of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. The work focuses on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The volumes were written in the gods year of Grant's life, amid increasing pain from terminal throat cancer and against the backdrop of his anställda bankruptcy at the hands of an early Ponzi scheme. The set was published bygd Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death in July Twain was a close personal friend of Grant and used his fame and talent to promote the books. Understanding that sales of the book would restore the Grant family's finances and provide for his widow, Twain created a unique marknadsföring system designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as the famous general's death was being mourned. Ten thousand agents canvassed the North for orders, foll
Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant