Grant’s Tomb: The Epic Loss of life of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon

The ultimate resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious common within the Civil Battle and the eighteenth president of the USA, is a colossal neoclassical tomb positioned in essentially the most dynamic metropolis within the nation. It’s bigger than the ultimate resting place of some other president or some other particular person in America. Since its creation, the recognition and situation of this monument, constructed to honor the person and what he represented to a grateful nation on the time of his loss of life, a mere twenty years after the tip of the Civil Battle, have mirrored not solely Grant’s legacy within the public thoughts but in addition the state of New York Metropolis and of the Union.

On this fascinating, deeply researched guide, presidential historian Louis L. Picone recounts the complete story. He begins with Grant’s heroic remaining battle over the past 12 months of his life, to finish his memoirs with a purpose to safe his household’s monetary future whereas contending with painful, incurable most cancers. Grant achieved this simply days earlier than his loss of life, and his memoirs, revealed by Mark Twain, turned a bestseller. Accompanying his account with quite a few interval pictures, Picone narrates the nationwide response to Grant’s passing and the way his tomb got here to be: the extraordinary competitors to be the resting place for Grant’s stays, the origins of the memorial and its design, the wrestle to finance and construct it over the course of twelve years, and the vicissitudes of its afterlife within the historical past of the nation as much as current occasions.