Private Memoirs Of U.s. Grant (Illustrated)

Private Memoirs Of U.s. Grant

By Ulysses S. Grant

Accomplished a short while earlier than his loss of life in 1885, the Private Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is acknowledged as we speak as probably the most vital American army memoirs of all time. In an sincere and clever voice, the celebrated Civil Struggle basic and former President provides an in depth and intimate telling of the occasions of the Mexican-American battle, and the American Civil Struggle and his function inside it as a Union Basic.

On the time of its publication, the Private Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant was an immediate success—a results of the advertising and marketing efforts of Mark Twain, Grant’s writer and private buddy. In an try to help the Grant household in recovering a few of the fortune misplaced when Grant was defrauded of his property, Twain created a nationwide advertising and marketing marketing campaign that used Civil Struggle 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.