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# Grant Hardcover – Illustrated, October 10, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

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    What I thought I knew was wrong
  

*by F***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2017*

I was raised in North Carolina.(My great grandfather was captured at the bloody angle at Spotsylvania Courthouse) and thus had the traitional  southern notion that Grant won most of his acclaim by being better supplied and having so many more troops than his opponents. I have always been a history buff, having read most of Mr Chernow’s previous books and many more, but this book changed my mind on a number of issues and convinced me that I had not given Mr Grant the acclaim he is due. The appropriate analogy, I believe,is that if Mr Lincoln was the engineer driving the ship of state during the war, Mr Grant was certainly the train plugging through and getting the work done. This book also disabused me in it’s 1000 pages  of. my previous notion that states rights had much of anything to do with causing the war because I remember James Longstreet being quoted about never having heard of the term several years after the war was over. As for Grant’s  presidency, he is remembered for all the corruption, and while it’s true that he probably couldn’t recognize a flim flam man when he saw him , the federal government was growing exponentially at the time and he personally was always honorable. There  well might have been no  reconstruction to speak of unless he hadn’t personally seen to it and made it happen. His story reminds me a little of the current confederate monument controversy. Most of them were put up long after the war was over and were put up largely by public officials looking To rewrite the history of a glorious and chivalrous  past that in truth wasn’t really so glorious or chivalrous. It was really eye opening to me to read about how much Grant was revered in both the north  and south while he lived and if you don’t shed a few tears while reading the last chapter, as I did, then you are truly hard- hearted.i really enjoyed reading the book and would recommend it to anyone for it’s fresh take on an old subject.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Pulitzer Prize-Quality Read That Brings Grant to Life
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2017*

If there’s an afterlife, I see Ron Chernow meeting Ulysses Grant and saying to him, “Hello there, General.  I made you come alive for a whole new generation of Americans,” and Grant will smile and reply, “I know.  Thank you!”In Chernow’s highly entertaining, highly readable biography, Grant becomes a flesh and blood, 3-dimensional, complex force of nature.  In fact, he presents the whole, colorful mid-19th Century America in vivid hues, especially Grant’s numerous Civil War battles.  And the people who were part of Grant’s life, some decent and attractive, some scurrilous and repellant, are sharply drawn.  Chernow does away with rumor, gossip, mystery, and myth to give us Grant the boy, the youth, the young lieutenant, the general, the president, the seer, and finally the greatest American memoir writer of the 19th Century.  And as for the book’s length, forget about it:  those 900+ pages go by too quickly.  You’ll close the book with a slight feeling of closing the book on a friend and wishing the experience had lasted longer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful New Biography!
  

*by A***9 on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017*

As someone who loves history, I have a terrible confession to make: Grant is the first Ron Chernow book I've ever read.  It will certainly not be the last.  Chernow's Grant is meticulously researched, well-written, with an easy style and flow that make a biography feel less like a lecture and more like an intimate conversation.  He provides descriptions and details that bring the time period and the people to vivid life.Grant was a complex man: both brilliant and naive; overly trusting in civilian life while able to perfectly predict what others would do on the battlefield; a man who claimed to have no great political ambitions yet was a rare (at the time) two term president.  Chernow reminds us of the personal connections of the generals of both the North and South- Grant attended West Point and fought in the Mexican War alongside William T. Sherman, Robert E Lee, and a veritable who's who of later Civil War leaders.  The best man at his wedding was James Longstreet, who would go on to be a great Southern general in the war.  Chernow also brings front and center Grant's hard work for African Americans, supporting the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, with equality and voting rights among his lifelong crusades.  While Lincoln is remembered in American history as the President who ended slavery, readers of Grant will see that President U.S. Grant should be remembered as a tireless proponent of civil rights and militant enemy of the Ku Klux Klan.Chernow doesn't turn away from Grant's failures in civilian life: his poverty before rejoining the army for the Civil War, his constant struggle with alcoholism, or Grant's repeated mistakes in trusting the wrong people in matters of finance- and occasionally in government.  Grant's personal traits: pride, stubbornness, loyalty among others are shown as what made him the greatest general of his time, but also caused a steep learning curve as President.Readers of Stephen W. Sears' Lincoln's Lieutenants will find this a perfect companion to their understanding of the generals of the Civil War, their successes and failures, radically different personalities, and their relationships with Lincoln. It continues to amaze me how individual personalities and personal ambitions shape the course of military history.Fans of history, biographies, and military history will rejoice in this new biography of General Grant- which will stand unchallenged as his definitive biography for a long time. An easy, flowing narrative, Ron Chernow's Grant will change the average American's view of Grant forever.

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