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1877
New Press, The 2010; US$ 19.95In 1877, a decade after the Civil War, not only was the United States gripped by a deep depression, but the country was also in the throes of nearly unimaginable violence and upheaval marking the end of the brief period known as Reconstruction and a return to white rule across the South. In the wake of the contested presidential election of 1876,... more...
Fraud of the Century
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 21.95In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr., tells the extraordinary story of how, in America's centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety years of legalized segregation in the South. The bitter 1876... more...
General Ulysses S. Grant
Da Capo Press 2007; US$ 18.00A fresh look at General Grant?s military career in light of his conflicted personality and drinking habits more...
Grant
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 21.95Aims to bring to life the brilliant military strategist, Ulysses S Grant. Grant never lost a battle, and ultimately became President of the reunited states. This biography reveals the man behind the military legend, showing how Grant's creativity and genius off the battlefield shaped him into one of America's greatest generals. more...
Grant
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 22.00Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory or march on Southern cities, he concentrated on... more...
Grant and Twain
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 16.00In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. Over the next fifteen months, as the two men became close friends and intimate... more...
Grant's Final Victory
Da Capo Press 2011; US$ 17.50In a masterful narrative, a prominent historian brings to life the last year of General Grant?s life?a tragic, poignant, and inspiring story more...
Personal Memoirs
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 16.00Mark Twain had known many of the great men of the Civil War and the Gilded Age, and esteemed none more highly than Ulysses S. Grant, who was modest, sensitive, generous, honest, and superlatively intelligent. Grant's courage, both moral and physical, was a matter of record. His genius as a general assured his immortality. In 1881, Twain urged Grant... more...
Personal Memoirs
Penguin Group US 1999; US$ 17.00Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point... more...
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
ReadHowYouWant 2007; US$ 3.99?Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant? is considered among the greatest of military memoirs. Marshalling the forces of the North in the American Civil War, he was the only general who was able to bring the South to heels. The descriptions of the great battles and his assessments of the generals, many of whom he knew intimately from the Mexican war, are... more...









