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Ulysses Grant is dying of throat cancer. Surrounded by intimates, Grant attempts to write his memoirs in his final days. This is a spellbinding tale of an American hero trying to win one last battle. Based upon original source materials, the story is an accurate depiction of who and what filled the mind and last days of the man who saved the Union.

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Ulysses Grant is dying of throat cancer. Surrounded by intimates, Grant attempts to write his memoirs in his final days. This is a spellbinding tale of an American hero trying to win one last battle. Based upon original source materials, the story is an accurate depiction of who and what filled the mind and last days of the man who saved the Union.
Autorenporträt
This is the first novel by Robert C. Conner, a longtime journalist who won two first-place writing awards from the New York Associated Press Association for newspapers with circulation between 50,000 and 200,000. His previous book, published by Casemate in 2013, was a biography, General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind Juneteenth. Conner has a Phi Beta Kappa bachelor's degree from New York University, and an associate's degree in chemical dependency counseling from Hudson Valley Community College. He serves as a volunteer at Grant Cottage in upstate New York, and as president of the Malta Sunrise Rotary Club. He and his wife Barbara have three grown children.