The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced probably the most bold version of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs but printed.

100 and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish version of Grant’s landmark memoir, and expands the Civil Conflict backdrop in opposition to which this monumental American life is often learn. No earlier version combines such a sweep of historic and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessive about Grant for many years, brings to the desk.

Whether or not exploring novels Grant learn at West Level or presenting majestic pictures culled from archives, Samet curates a richly annotated, extremely collectible version that may fascinate Civil Conflict buffs. The version additionally breaks new floor in its assault on the “Misplaced Trigger” revisionism that also distorts our nationwide dialog in regards to the legacy of the Civil Conflict. By no means has Grant’s transformation from tanner’s son to navy chief been extra insightfully and passionately defined than on this well timed version, showing on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Grant’s 1868 presidential election.

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