Grant, which focuses on his … West Point Professor Elizabeth Samet talked about her book, The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, an annotated edit… ...

Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War.

“The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant,” edited by Elizabeth D. Samet, is everything a work of popular scholarship should be: Authoritative, thorough and compulsively readable. Where many ...

And Ulysses S. Grant's reputation was sort of as low as ... At the urging of Mark Twain, he began writing his memoirs as a way to save his family from financial ruin. It worked, and the memoirs ...

On page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant ... in the town of Moreau, where Grant spent the last weeks of his life finishing his memoirs. Kemp’s journey from believing to ...

In his memoirs Grant wrote ... Fresh facedOne of the earliest known photographs of Ulysses S. Grant, taken in uniform around the time of his 1843 graduation from West Point.

There is a famous photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, sitting on the porch of his home in upstate New York on an obviously very cold day in 1885, writing his memoirs. He appears a forlorn figure.

7. Ulysses S. Grant got help from Mark Twain for his memoirs. “It was a shameful thing that a man who had saved his country and its government from destruction should still be in a position ...

In 1884 the firm went bankrupt. So did Ulysses S. Grant. Desperate for money, Grant turned to writing his wartime memoirs as a way to support his family. He began by selling short magazine ...