Ulysses S. Grant

“Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”-Ron Chernow, author of Grant “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.”-Thomas E....

"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader's enjoyment of Grant's fluent narrative." - Ron Chernow, author of Grant Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, sold door-to-door by...

One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, expanding the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an...