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From the Western frontier to the battlefields of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Franklin, Petersburg, and Richmond, Grant saw the war from the front lines and made the decisions that affected lives on a day-to-day basis. His writings provide a revealing look into the life of the commander in chief of the Union army as well as the seminal eyewitness account of the War between the States.
The Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is a popular abridgment of...
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Library of America volume 50
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1990
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1199 p. ; 21 cm.
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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009
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373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Most Americans today are unaware of how revered Grant was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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lxxiv, 1068 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table."--Amazon.com....
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 3
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999.
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x, 560 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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A dramatization of the confrontations between Robert E. Lee, Lawrence Chamberlain, and Ulysses S. Grant during the last two years of the Civil War.
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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xxv, 486 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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A scholarly analysis of the dynamics between Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest throughout the Civil War traces a critical 20-month conflict period while assessing the impact of their underprivileged backgrounds on their military achievements.
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (220 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Reappraises Grant's career, from his pre-civil war days as a failed soldier, to his transformation into the greatest Union hero of the Civil War, to his presidency, rocked by scandal and economic depression, and to his last days, when he raced to finish his war memoirs as he was dying of cancer.
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Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
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2023.
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Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family has financial security and he some salvation, Ulysses S. Grant, riddled with cancer, journeys back in time to the crucial moments of his life as a general and twice-elected president as he reckons with his complicated legacy.
16) Grant
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"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 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 inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
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xxvii, 826 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Based on seven years of research with primary documents?some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars?this is destined to become the Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at writing momentous history from the inside out, shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leader?a willing delegator with a natural gift for managing the rampaging egos of his fellow officers. His wife, Julia Dent Grant,...
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