Grant - Hardcover

Byrd, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553096338 ISBN 13: 9780553096330

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2000

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Book by Byrd Max

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A fictional portrait of Civil War general and American president Ulysses S. Grant captures a unique, flawed man who led the North to a successful conclusion in the Civil War, was elected president, failed as both a farmer and businessman, and fought his final unsuccessful battle against the cancer that would claim his life. By the author of Jefferson and Jackson.

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else writing in America today, Max Byrd, the critically acclaimed author of Jefferson and Jackson, makes history come alive.

Grant: A Novel is an unforgettable portrait of America's Gilded Age and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center who may well be our most uniquely American hero.

He was the nineteenth century's most famous drunkard. He was a failure at farming, business, and politics. A failure, indeed, at everything in life except war. And even in war, to his countrymen in the North, Ulysses S. Grant was the "Bloody Butcher of Cold Harbor" as much as he was the Hero of Vicksburg and Appomattox. Yet the gentle, martyred Lincoln found him a kindred spirit. And after Lincoln's assassination, a bereaved nation elected him President twice.

The year is 1880, and the Civil War is slowly receding into the past. Lincoln has been dead for fifteen years, and Grant--retired from his second scandal-ridden term in the W

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0553096338
• ISBN 13: 9780553096330
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362