Examines the life and times of the eighteenth president of the United States, discussing his personal life as well as his military and political careers.

This is a biography of the eighteenth president of the United States from his childhood to his command of the Union army to his final years writing his memoirs.

Traces the life and presidency of Ulyssses S. Grant and discusses why he was undervalued as a president.

A biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States.

The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow. Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Presented with an introduction...

Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...

Chronicles the life of Union general Ulysses S. Grant, discussing his childhood, schooling at the United States Military Academy, service during the Mexican War, role in the Civil War, presidency, and other related topics.

A biography of Ulysses Grant, from his childhood in Ohio, through his education at West Point and his career as an Army officer, to his terms as president of the United States.

Based on extensive research, including material either not seen or not used by other writers, this biography explains for the first time how Grant's military genius ultimately triumphed as he created a new approach to battle. As president, Grant was widely misunderstood and underrated. That was mainly because he was, as Perret shows, the first modern president - the first man to preside over a rich, industrialized America that had put slavery behind...