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245 1. $a The |personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant $d Texte imprimé $e the complete annotated edition $f edited by John F. Marszalek with David S. Nolen & Louie P. Gallo
250 .. $a First Havard University Press paperback edition
260 .1 $a Cambridge (Mass.) $c The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press $d 2019 $i 2017
280 .. $a 1 vol. (XXVIII-784 p.) $d 24 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references and index
330 .. $a President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of
the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union
soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households
as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Arnold, Henry James, and Edmund
Wilson hailed these works as great literature, and presidents Bill Clinton and George
W. Bush both credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Yet a judiciously annotated
clarifying edition of these memoirs has never been produced until now. The Personal
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is the first comprehensively 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 and his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision
making. An introduction contextualizes Grant's life and significance, and lucid editorial
commentary allows the president's voice and narrative to shine through. Compiled by
the editors in the Ulysses S. Grant Association's Presidential Library, these selections
enrich our understanding of the antebellum era, the Mexican War, and the Civil War.
Grant provides insight into how rigorously these events tested America's democratic
institutions and the cohesion of its social order. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses
S. Grant preserves and extends a work of profound political, historical, and literary
significance and serves as the gateway for modern readers of all backgrounds to an
American classic.
