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5 de ago. de 2021 · Following two years later, The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant published in 2019 by Liveright has an introduction along with extensive footnotes by Grant scholar Elizabeth Samet. She’s a professor at West Point, which seems to qualify her well to talk about military matters. But as a scholar of literature rather than history, Samet ...
16 de out. de 2017 · Louie P. Gallo is the assistant editor at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum. He previously worked at the National McKinley Birthplace Museum and Memorial in Niles, Ohio. He was the co-editor of "The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition," published by Harvard University Press in 2017.
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 ...
13 de fev. de 2018 · Book Review: The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant / The Complete Annotated Edition. Few authors have been as successful in achieving what they set out to do as Ulysses S. Grant. When he began work on his memoirs, Grant had to repair his family’s finances, tattered by ill-advised investments. In addition, Grant understood that he had won ...
President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible.
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.
20 de jun. de 2018 · Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs begins with the author's formative years and his military service, continuing through the U.S. Civil War and the author's time as President of the United States. Various battles such as Monterrey, and sieges such as Vera Cruz, are recounted in this volume, with Mexico's actions and abilities as an enemy much detailed.
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