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**__NEW YORK TIMES__ BESTSELLER • From the author of __A. Lincoln,__ a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents** In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In __American Ulysses,__ Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first. Based on seven years of research with primary documents—some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars—this is destined to become __the__ Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at writing momentous history from the inside out, shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leader—a willing delegator with a natural gift for managing the rampaging egos of his fellow officers. His wife, Julia Dent Grant, long marginalized in the historic record, emerges in her own right as a spirited and influential partner. Grant was not only a brilliant general but also a passionate defender of equal rights in post-Civil War Amer

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Author

Grant, Ulysses Simpson;White, Ronald C

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588369925

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Political

Rating

4.51 / 5 (1,036 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14