Grant
Ron Chernow
The #1 New York Times bestseller. New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an ...
Publish Date
2018-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
2018-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 2017
Goodreads rating
4.41
ISBN
9780143110637
Categories
Recommendations
5
Recommendations
2017-12-31T00:00:00.000Z
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/101555326774467492020-06-10T22:50:29.000Z
Read the recent Grant bio by Ron Chernow. A fantastic book that chronicles Grant’s amazing narrative. He went from being a failed businessman (broke, couldn’t afford rent in a SF flophouse) to a transformative military commander to a president who combatted white supremacists. – source2021-02-12T02:52:07.000Z
Have you read Ron Chernow’s Grant? It’s hard to turn off and I’ve read wat, dozens of civil war books, but never with a focus on this hero of heroes. Strongly recommend the audio book: – source2020-06-21T01:52:53.000Z
This book is obscenely long and sometimes dragged. But at the end when you find out Grant had chosen Union and Confederate generals to be his pallbearers, I cried. He was a great American. – source