Private Memoirs Of U.s. Grant (Illustrated)

Private Memoirs Of U.s. Grant
By Ulysses S. Grant
Accomplished a short while earlier than his demise in 1885, the Private Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is acknowledged right this moment as one of the vital vital American army memoirs of all time. In an trustworthy and clever voice, the celebrated Civil Warfare basic and former President presents an in depth and intimate telling of the occasions of the Mexican-American struggle, and the American Civil Warfare and his position inside it as a Union Common. On the time of its publication, the Private Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant was an instantaneous success, a results of the advertising efforts of Mark Twain, Grant’s writer and private buddy. In an try to help the Grant household in recovering a number of the fortune misplaced when Grant was defrauded of his property, Twain created a nationwide advertising marketing campaign that used Civil Warfare veterans as booksellers. The ensuing gross sales of over 350,000 copies allowed the Grant property to be efficiently reestablished and the Memoirs themselves to be acknowledged throughout the canon of American non-fiction.