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Grant / Ron Chernow.
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant'slife has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594204876
- ISBN: 159420487X
- Physical Description: 1074 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Contains bibliographical references and index. |
Awards Note: | New York Times Best Seller, Non-fiction 2018 |
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Subject: | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. United States. Army > Biography. Presidents > United States > Biography. Generals > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Biographies. |