Grant [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Chernow, Ron

Verlag: Penguin Press, New York, 2017

Beschreibung

Fine condition dark blue boards/navy blue spine/gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Ron Chernow; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote from Walt Whitman, Specimen Days; Author's Note; Introduction: The Sphinx Talks; Preliminary Page Maps; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; and Index. Illustrated with Preliminary Page Maps, black-and-white photographs, a section of black-and-white photographic plates, and a black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes doen't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg Campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant's military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, worlking to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him "the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race." After Grant's presidency, he was again brough low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic . and yet the greatest hero." Chernow's probing portrait of Grant's lifelong strugle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most under-appreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple midwesterner could be at once so ordinary and so extraordinary." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006685

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Grant [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Verlag: Penguin Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition