Ulysses Grant

Title	Author	Year	Notes
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant	Ulysses S. Grant		Available online here: http://www.bartleby.com/1011/
U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition	Bruce Catton		ISBN 0-316-13207-1 Published 1954 PresidentProfiles.com: a brief, incisive, and highly readable biography of Grant
Grant	Jean Edward Smith		Idea from PresidentProfiles.com ISBN-10: 0684849275 ISBN-13: 978-0684849270 Grant's reputation as a general has steadily improved in the past quarter century, and the preceding decade has seen reevaluation of a presidency previously dismissed as an eight-year disaster. Smith, until now best known for his work in 20th-century U.S. foreign policy (George Bush's War), integrates Grant's career and achievements in what is by far the best comprehensive biography to date of a man who remains in enigma. A West Pointer who disliked the army enough to resign from it in 1854, Grant failed unobtrusively at every civilian enterprise he attempted. His return to arms in 1861 was marked by no spectacular triumph. Instead, from Shiloh through Vickburgh to Chattanooga, he established himself as the North's best general by a combination of flexibility, resilience and determination. Lee's unconditional surrender was accompanied by Grant's de facto pardon of the defeated army, and Smith persuasively interprets this as an early turning point of reconstruction, preventing Northern reprisals that might have left the nation permanently divided emotionally. Elected president in 1868, Grant above all sought reconciliation, yet made measured and effective use of the army to protect black rights in the south. Smith makes a strong case that the financial scandals that dogged Grant's second term reflected individual misfeasance rather than structural malaise-Grant was better at judging military subordinates than political advisers. His mediation of the Hayes-Tilden election in 1876 helped avert a national crisis. As a conqueror who was also a healer of war's wounds, Grant stands with no superiors and few equals, Smith forcefully argues. (Apr.) Forecast: The timing of this book is right, with Colin Powell as secretary of state and an election whose questions of black disenfranchisement and small electoral margin of victory are analogous to Hayes-Tilden. 784 pages
Captain Sam Grant	Lloyd Lewis		U. S. Grant trilogy (finished by Catton due to Lewis' death) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Catton#Ulysses_S._Grant_trilogy
Grant Moves South	Bruce Catton		ISBN 0-316-13207-1 Published 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Catton#Ulysses_S._Grant_trilogy
Grant Takes Command	Bruce Catton		ISBN 0-316-13210-1 Published 1968 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Catton#Ulysses_S._Grant_trilogy

 

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