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Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as the first organized terrorist movement in American history, rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Profiles the lives, careers, and friendship of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, and chronicles their failures and successes, families, political hurdles, and their shrewdness in battle that eventually led to a Union victory during the Civil War.
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