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Grant : a Biography by William S McFeely; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This is a biography of a mid-nineteenth century Ohio boy who couldn't hold a job but became the nation's commanding general and later its president. Ulysses Grant had gone to West Point largely because his father despaired of making a successful businessman of him. He came alive in the Mexican War, but afterward, on remote posts in the Pacific Northwest, he slipped into depression and drinking. Back in Missouri and Illinois, he moved down from farmer to rent collector to shop clerk. He had married in 1848, and in 1860, two not-so-young Americans seemed settled into quiet failure. The Civil War brought opportunity, and Grant's simple strategy--to outkill and outlast the enemy--prevailed. While nothing in his earlier life suggested unusual ability, he was greatly successful, to a point where the presidency was almost inevitable. But statecraft was less arousing than war. Grant never mastered it and again failed. He was a successful spokesman for neither business nor the interests of outsiders. He failed to secure the rights of his loyal black constituents, and he was never able to find a voice with which to express what lay beneath the frustrated energy of thousands of ordinary Ameri

Who reads Grant : a Biography?

Author

William S McFeely; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393300468

Category

history

Subjects

Technology, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.03 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14