Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
de Ulysses S. Grant
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Clarence, New York, United States
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Both volumes are in very good minus condition. Moderate wear to the cloth boards, most noticeable at the spines. Front hinge cracked in Vol I., causing a split to the cloth at the lower front gutter.
This is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. These volumes focus on his military career during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. They were written during the last year of his life amid increasing pain while suffering from throat cancer.
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Sinopsis
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters.Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.This Penguin Classics edition of Grants Personal Memoirs includes an indespensable introduction and explanatory notes by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson.
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Deservedly considered one of the best personal memoirs of the Civil War era by any high-ranking individual. Grant received help in the writing from mark Twain and one can see the influence of the humorist in multiple small vignettes.More endearing is the honest, straightforward treatment Grant makes of his own performance and decisions as well as his evaluations of others, on both sides of the conflict.Clearly he did not like Secretary of War Stanton but his treatment of Stanton, while enumerating the problems, also included an evaluation of Stanton's better features.It is this even-handedness, and the fact that Grant does not use his memoirs as a justification or a white-washing of his own mistakes that makes this a truly valuable tome.Grant made mistakes, he freely admits them and, on occasion, offers suggestions for what he could have done better and also illuminates that the war, command, and battle was a learning process for all involved. He talks about how mistakes he made early in the war were not repeated later and how others made the same growth, or were moved out of command positions.All in all an excellent read, well-written, balanced.
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- Librería
- Ernestoic Books (US)
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- 3682
- Título
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
- Autor
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing
- Editorial
- Charles L. Webster & Company
- Fecha de publicación
- 1885
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- Países y culturas Norteamérica Estados Unidos Americana
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- Historia militar Historia militar de Estados Unidos
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