“Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else… Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership. “Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.” “What gives this peculiarly reticent book its power? Above all, authenticity… Grant’s style is strikingly modern in its economy.” By the end of the war, Grant was the highest-ranking general of. Grant (18221885) wrote a Civil War memoir. Grant provides essential insight into how rigorously these events tested America’s democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order. It is both fitting and surprising that Ulysses S. Grant Association’s Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the pre-war years, the war with Mexico, and the Civil War. With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S. This is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, clarifying the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. Mark Twain and Henry James hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Grant is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant's memoirs, fully representing the great military leader's thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible.

Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant