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Grant’S Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Chris Mackowski
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Description for Grant’S Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Paperback. The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War .. the two-term president of the United States .. the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe .. the respected New York financier-Ulysses S. Grant-was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked 20 cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Series: Emerging Civil War Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, 125 images, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 318.
The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked 20 cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grant’s final battle—a race against his own failing health to complete his Personal Memoirs in an attempt to secure his family’s financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very ... Read more
The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked 20 cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grant’s final battle—a race against his own failing health to complete his Personal Memoirs in an attempt to secure his family’s financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Savas Beatie United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Emerging Civil War Series
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
El Dorado Hills, United States
ISBN
9781611211603
SKU
V9781611211603
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Ref
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About Chris Mackowski
Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor in chief and a co-founder of Emerging Civil War, and he’s the managing editor of the Emerging Civil War Series published by Savas Beatie. Chris is a writing professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University, where he also serves as the associate dean for undergraduate programs, and is the historian-in-residence ... Read more
Reviews for Grant’S Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have recounted Grant’s battlefield exploits as historians at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Mackowski, as an academic, has studied Grant’s literary career. Their familiarity with the former president as a general and as a writer bring Grant’s Last Battle to life with new insight, told with the engaging prose that has ... Read more