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Grant (book)
2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow
Grant is a 2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18thPresident of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow.
Grant, a Union general during the Civil War, served two terms as president, from 1869 to 1877. Chernow asserts that both Grant's command of the Overland campaign and his presidency have been seen in an undeservedly negative light.
Washington biography ron chernow grant
Background
Chernow had previously written about two Founding Fathers, in a biography of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and George Washington (2010). "I had always had a fantasy about doing a big, sweeping saga about the Civil War and Reconstruction," Chernow said.
"It fascinates me that there are so many Americans who know about the Civil War battles in intimate detail, but they know nothing about Reconstruction."[1]
The caricature of his presidency was that it was, you know, stained by corruption, and nepotism and cronyism.
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