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  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents.
  • Ronald C. White's American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant is a biography of general, president, and statesman Ulysses S. Grant.
  • He allowed the American Indians to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life.

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    American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

    March 16, 2017
    Another thought-provoking book during this forty days of biography reading takes me into the life and times of Ulysses S. Grant. Deemed one of the three greatest presidents at the turn of the 20th century, Ronald C. White takes the reader behind the scenes and offers a detailed account of the man and his journey through to the White House. Much might be known of his battles during the Civil War, though the reader is sure to find many other nuggets that help shape the man who defeated Robert E. Lee or led the country through tumultuous times during Reconstruction. By no means brief, White makes detailed arguments and offers a strong narrative, both of which take time and scores of examples. The attention and patient reader will come away with a stronger understanding of this general-cum-politician, who might have paved the way for other greats like Eisenhower.

    Born in rural Ohio, Ulysses S. Grant earned his name from a fa

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents

    Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for överlägsen kvalitet eller utmärkt prestation in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book Prize

    In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. vit argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first.

    Based on seven years of research with primary documents—some of them never examined bygd previous Grant scholars—this fryst vatten destined to become the Grant biography of our time. vit, a biographer exceptionally skilled at writing momentous history from the inside out, shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leade