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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Edited by Elizabeth D. Samet. Liveright, $45 (1,024p) ISBN 978-1-63149-244-0. West Point professor Samet (Soldier’s Heart) pulls off a herculean ...
I read Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant before tackling Elizabeth Samet's work to annotate Grant's Personal Memoirs. Chernow's book helped me put the Personal Memoirs in the larger context of Grant's entire life while Samet's annotations helped me place the Personal Memoirs in the larger context of the world's military literature.
What made the. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. particularly appealing to readers was Grant’s humility about himself and his infrequent criticism of others. He wrote nothing about the rumors concerning his alleged drunkenness, the difculties of his life as a citizen just before the start of the Civil War, his rela.
16 de oct. de 2017 · As the first fully annotated edition of Ulysses S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs, this fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader’s enjoyment of Grant’s fluent narrative.
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S Grant and Elizabeth Samet (editor), Mark Bramhall (narrator) Recommendations from our site “The audiobook of the memoir is read by a professional narrator, Mark Bramhall. This is again very long, nearly 30 hours.
1 de oct. de 1990 · Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose, and simple compassion are evident throughout this vivid and deeply moving account, which has been ...
5 de ago. de 2021 · The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant edited by Eliabeth D. Samet, hardcover, Liveright, 2019, $45. “There is so much there…A tanner’s son, failing at so much, turned savior of his country. A slaveholder turned mass emancipator. The warrior transformed into a warrior-poet.”. — Ta Nehisi Coates.
