6/28/2023 0 Comments Ulysses grant memoirs![]() ![]() What caused Grant to become not simply a memoirist but one of the most successful memoirists of his day? As with so many of his achievements, necessity and circumstance figured heavily. ![]() ![]() More known for his reticence than for his eloquence, he was often depicted as a cigar-chewing stoic rather than a leader who expressed himself publicly. Yet for all his fame, Grant was a private man not given to literary pursuits. In America during the late nineteenth century, many celebrated figures wrote autobiographies, and many Civil War heroes less prominent than Grant published memoirs to great acclaim. By the end of the war, Grant was the highest-ranking general of the victorious Union army and he rode his immense popularity to two terms as president of the United States (1868–1876). Grant (1822–1885) wrote a Civil War memoir. It is both fitting and surprising that Ulysses S. ![]()
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