No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table. One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant’s landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs yet published. Similarly, if you’re going to purchase one of the several annotated editions of his memoirs, this is the collection to own, read, and reread.With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. “It’s been said that if you’re going to pick up one memoir of the Civil War, Grant’s is the one to read. “What gives this peculiarly reticent book its power? Above all, authenticity… Grant’s style is strikingly modern in its economy.” Grant provides essential insight into how rigorously these events tested America’s democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order. Grant Association’s Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the pre-war years, the war with Mexico, and the Civil War. With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S.

This is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, clarifying the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. Mark Twain and Henry James hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents credit Grant with influencing their own writing.

Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. “Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else… Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership.” “Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”

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