Ulysses S. Grant was an American army officer and political leader who acted as the United States' 18th president from 1869 to 1877. Grant was an achieved civil liberties executive at the time of his presidency, developing the Justice Department and teaming up with the Radical Republicans to secure African Americans at the time of Restoration. He led the Union Army to success in the American Civil War as Commanding General in the year 1865, and after that briefly functioned as Secretary of...

Ulysses S. Grant's 'The Life of Ulysses Grant' is a two-volume autobiography that provides readers with a detailed account of the author's life and military career. Grant's literary style in this work is straightforward and unembellished, reflecting his no-nonsense approach to both writing and leadership. The books offer a glimpse into the Civil War era and the challenges faced by one of the most prominent figures of the time. Readers will find a wealth of firsthand insights and historical...

I grew up Grant because Ulysses was too dangerous a name to call a kid in the 1950s, when conformity ruled, and Ulysses S. Grant's reputation was in the toilet. My given name Ulysses, however, ended up defining me as I was coming out in the early 1970s, altering my relationship with the world. On my father's side, an Alsatian immigrant to Colonial New York and, on my mother's, a Puritan dissenter seeking freedom on the Mayflower, added romance to my bland Leave it to Beaver life i...

The celebrated remembrances of the man who led the Union to victory during the Civil WarCompleted just days before his death, Grant's Personal Memoirs is a clear and compelling account of his military career, focusing on two great conflicts: the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Lauded for its crisp and direct prose, Grant's autobiography offers frank insight into everything from the merits of the war with Mexico to the strategies and tactics employed...

Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington.Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted in the Union cause crumbling into defeat – and the United States dissolving into a collection of competing sovereign states. It was not always so clear cut. An early milita...

Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington.Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted in the Union cause crumbling into defeat – and the United States dissolving into a collection of competing sovereign states. It was not always so clear cut. An early milita...

“Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”—Ron Chernow, author of Grant“Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else… Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership.”—Thomas E. Ricks, Foreign PolicyUlysses...

"One of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature." --William McFeeleyAmong the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically "rescued" him, these memoirs a...

Ulysses S. Grant was far more than the general who won the Civil War or the president whose administration was shadowed by scandal. He was a quiet boy from Ohio, a reluctant West Point cadet, a brave officer in Mexico, a failed farmer and businessman, a devoted husband, a relentless Union commander, and a president who fought to protect Reconstruction and Black civil rights in one of America's most difficult eras.

“Tolling, slowly tolling, the alarm bells of all America sent to every heart this morning the news, long expected and long dreaded, that Ulysses S. Grant was dead,” announced the Boston Globe on July 23, 1885, just hours after the one-time Commanding General of the U.S. Army and former President of the United States had passed on. Taking note of the extraordinary tributes and declarations of love expressed by people in all regions of the country, black and white, as Grant endured a months-...

Ulysses S. Grant was far more than the general who won the Civil War or the president whose administration was shadowed by scandal. He was a quiet boy from Ohio, a reluctant West Point cadet, a brave officer in Mexico, a failed farmer and businessman, a devoted husband, a relentless Union commander, and a president who fought to protect Reconstruction and Black civil rights in one of America's most difficult eras.

Ulysses S. Grant (SparkNotes Biography Guide)Making the reading experience fun!SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes:An examination of the historical context in which the person livedA summary of the person’s life and achievementsA glossary of important terms, people, and eventsAn in-depth look at the key epochs in the pers...