Grant"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country."—C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography."—Justin Kaplan, The New Republic |
Contents
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THE MEXICAN WAR | 28 |
A SOLDIER BETWEEN WARS | 41 |
GALENA | 58 |
ESCAPING FROM THE ORDINARY | 67 |
WARRIORS | 77 |
BATTLES | 90 |
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET | 274 |
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS OF THIS LAND | 305 |
A FRIDAY AND A FRIEND | 319 |
ENGLAND AND SANTO DOMINGO | 332 |
DEMOCRACY | 356 |
GREATNESS | 380 |
WEDDING AND WHISKEY | 400 |
WAIFS | 426 |
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