The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10
Best Books of 2017 "Eminently readable but thick with import . . .
Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge." -Ta-Nehisi Coates, The
Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping
and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and
presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically
been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic
loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal
Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come
close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful
biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the
general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying
speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His
business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished
service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in
disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war,
Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through
the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and
in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary
Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared
himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general
and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant's military fame
translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by
corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More
important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans,
working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of
Frederick Douglass, who called him "the vigilant, firm, impartial,
and wise protector of my race." After his presidency, he was again
brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to
resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his
memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With
lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads
that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on
the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic... and yet
the greatest hero." Chernow's probing portrait of Grant's lifelong
struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at
the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing
movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated
presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of
painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of
all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner
could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. Named one of the
best books of the year by Goodreads * Amazon * The New York Times *
Newsday * BookPage * Barnes and Noble * Wall Street Journal
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