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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year (2011)

by Charles Bracelen Flood(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0306820285 (ISBN13: 9780306820281)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Da Capo Press

review 1: I can't remember when a book moved me as much as this one. It is a story of courage, love and decency. It describes the type of courage that you wish you could have in facing any kind of adversity. Flood provides a narrative that is hard to put down. It directs itself to answering questions like, "Why is Grant buried here in NY?" and "How did Mark Twain come to publish Grant's memoirs?" A must read for followers of Grant, the Civil War and late 19th Century America. God, it was good.
review 2: This book is not about Grant’s military campaigns; rather, it concerns his struggle to finish his still-celebrated memoirs before cancer killed him, so that his wife and children would have an income after he died. It is also a love story: about how so many people ador... moreed Grant for his goodness and unwavering trust in them. This made him, tragically, an easy mark for the many who would exploit that trust, but provided enduring inspiration for those who deserved it. At the end of the book, when the author describes how a bugler playing taps at Grant’s tomb caused General William Tecumseh Sherman to begin sobbing, I was sobbing right there with him. less

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