Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading): In Two Volumes (Vol. I and II)
- ISBN-10
- 0760749906
- ISBN-13
- 9780760749906
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 864
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-10
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Publishing
- Author
- Ulysses S. Grant
Description
Tracing his ancestry, Grant gives insight into the upbringing of a heralded military and political leader. On a broader scale, his first-person account of America?s armed forces outlines both civil and foreign insurrection. Grant wrote the two-volume Memoirs, published by Mark Twain, during his final battle? a battle against cancer that he would ultimately lose.
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