Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50 Grant Ulysses S.Pevná vazba
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50 Grant Ulysses S.Pevná vazba Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. in doing so,…
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Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50 Grant Ulysses S.Pevná vazba
Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. in doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future.
Annotated and complete with detailed maps, battle plans, and facsimiles reproduced from the original edition, this volume offers an unparalleled vantage on the most terrible, moving, and inexhaustibly fascinating event in American history. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose, and simple compassion are evident throughout this vivid and deeply moving account, which has been acclaimed by readers as diverse asMark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson. included are 174 letters, many of them to his wife, Julia, which offer an intimate view of their affectionate and enduring