Grant: A Biography

by William S. McFeely

Series: Library of the Presidents

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1906 Grant: A Biography, by William S. McFeeley (read 9 Feb 1985) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1982) I found this book well worth reading. It is excellent on most of Grant's career. McFeeley says good things about Grant as a general, but has little good to say about him as a president. The book was very opinionated in regard to the failure of the Republicans to uphold the rights of blacks after the Civil War, but I can find the attitude understandable. It would have required an iron-fisted military rule to maintain the Reconstruction governments. (

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Schmerguls | Sep 4, 2008 |

This is McFeely's award winning biography of Grant. It is pretty evenly divided between his military and poltical career. A worthwhile read, though there are more recent biographies of this important military and political figure. (

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Grant: A Biography

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Julia Dent Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

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Hardin County, Tennessee, USA

Mississippi, USA

Shiloh Church, Tennessee, USA

Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, USA

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American Civil War (1861 ∙ 1865)

Battle of Shiloh ( [1862] ∙ [1862])

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi (1863)

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National Book Award finalist (Autobiography/Biography (Paperback), 1983)

Francis Parkman Prize (1982)

Pulitzer Prize (Biography or Autobiography, 1982)

Fletcher Pratt Award (1981)

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"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best." Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic Illustrations

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