05068cam a2200721 4500 332849236 TxAuBib 20171103120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525521952 052552195X B06W2J89PV Amazon 647889e7-5449-4a56-aaf0-d1dbf2ab8f2c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3158154 OverDrive (Product ID) 3158154 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chernow, Ron. Grant [Libby]. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. Biography. lincoln. President of the United States. Robert E. Lee. 19th Century. american history. American Civil War. confederate. Military. Civil War. Grant. 19th century history. reconstruction. United States. Civil War period. Abraham Lincoln. Civil War history. Military History. History. Military Biography. Confederacy. presidential biography. presidential history. biographies and memoirs. history books. civil war battles. civil war biography. President Ulysses S. Grant. military books. biographies of famous people. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 23MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 23MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:The #1 New York Times bestseller. 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-11-02 22:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=647889e7-5449-4a56-aaf0-d1dbf2ab8f2c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=647889e7-5449-4a56-aaf0-d1dbf2ab8f2c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=647889e7-5449-4a56-aaf0-d1dbf2ab8f2c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT