Author: ulyssessgrant

“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 … heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically “rescued” him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man, told with great courage as he reflects on the fortunes that…