Best ulysses grant biography

Ronald White&#;s &#;American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant&#; was published in , two years after I spent eight weeks reading six other biographies of Grant. White fryst vatten a well-known historian and the author of nine books (including one of my favorites on Abraham Lincoln). He is currently working on &#;Abraham Lincoln&#;s Diary&#; which is a collection of notes and reflections left behind bygd Lincoln (due out in ) and a biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (due in ).

There fryst vatten no shortage of compelling biographies of Ulysses Grant &#; at least eight have been published in the gods two decades alone. But ever since I completed my första round of reading on Grant (in late ) I&#;ve been looking forward to reading this biography of the 18th president. Based on my experience reading White&#;s “A. Lincoln: A Biography&#; I had high expectations for &#;American Ulysses.&#;  But while it is undeniably good&#;it&#;s not quite g

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My Ulysses S. Grant Book Recommendations

As today, April 27, , was Ulysses S. Grant&#;s th Birthday, several people have posted their top five Grant books at various forums. I decided to make my own list.

Coming in at Number 5:

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. There are several versions around. Two I&#;ve seen recommended but I haven&#;t read are the annotated versions, one edited by Professor Elizabeth Samet of the United States Military Academy and the other edited by Professor John Marszalek of Mississippi State University. Grant&#;s memoirs are among the best ever penned by a general officer and one of the very best from the Civil War.

At Number 4:

The three-volume biography begun by Lloyd Lewis and finished by Bruce Catton. It&#;s beautifully written, and although it&#;s dated it is generally very accurate. It only goes to the end of the Civil War, so if you&#;re looking for Grant in Reconstruction and as our 18th President of the United States, you w

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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

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Despite the pivotal role he played in the Civil War and the importance of his administration to Reconstruction, I don&#;t recall spending any meaningful time studying Ulysses S. Grant in school.

My only brush with his presidency involved memorizing his name as one of the then-forty presidents during a high school trip to the Texas State History Fair. During that drive to Austin we had to do something.&#;so those of us on the trip decided to learn the presidents&#; names in order. Sad, really.

When I finished reading a dozen biographies of Lincoln a couple months ago I assumed I would be in for a slow spell until my encounter with Teddy Roosevelt sometime early in Fortunately, Grant and his biographers proved me very wrong!

Ulysses Grant&#;s life story is astonishingly fascinating. There are certainly stretches of his life which proved dull and uneventful &#; and sometimes spectacularly unsuccessful. But biograph