![]() ![]() ![]() Grant provides insight into how rigorously these events tested America's democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order. Grant Association's Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the antebellum era, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S. An introduction contextualizes Grant's life and significance, and lucid editorial commentary allows the president's voice and narrative to shine through. 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. Yet a judiciously annotated clarifying edition of these memoirs has never been produced until now. ![]() Bush both credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Arnold, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed these works as great literature, and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. 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. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. ![]()
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