TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chernow,Ron
TI  - Grant
SN  - 9781594204876 : HRD
AV  - E672 .C47 2017
U1  - 973.8/2092 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Biography
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Generals
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1869-1877
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 1021-1031) and index
N2  - "Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant'slife has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency"--
ER  -