How Grant’s humble beginnings shaped his unique military genius Renowned for his skill, courage, and indomitability during the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant is considered a model for outstanding American...
David A. Powell’s sophisticated strategic and operational analysis of Grant’s command decisions and actions shows how his determined leadership relieved the siege and shattered the enemy, resulting in the creation of a new strategic base of Union operations and Grant’s elevation to commander of all the Federal armies the following year.
In Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth, Edwina S. Campbell chronicles Ulysses S. Grant’s two-year world tour—the first diplomatic mission ever undertaken by a former U.S. president—and demonstrates how it marked a decided turning point in the role of the United States in world affairs.
This book, the inaugural volume in our new World of Ulysses S. Grant series, demonstrates the intricacies of Grant’s life and career and the extent of his literary ability through his letters and other writings. Both a concise reference for Grant scholars and Civil War enthusiasts and a valuable introduction to those new to Grant’s writings, this volume provides intriguing insight into one of the nineteenth century’s most important Americans.
Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. This forty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword, a new preface, recommendations for further reading, and photographs.
In this first book devoted to the genesis, failure, and lasting legacy of Ulysses S. Grant’s comprehensive American Indian policy, Stockwell shows Grant as an essential bridge between Andrew Jackson’s pushing Indians out of the American experience and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s welcoming them back in.
Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a reexamination of the commander and the campaign. His fresh analysis of Grant’s decision-making process during the Vicksburg...
