Garry Boulard

Ulysses S. Grant (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of a Hero

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Tolling, slowly tolling, the alarm bells of all America sent to every heart this morning the news, long expected and long dreaded, that Ulysses S. Grant was dead," announced the Boston Globe on July 23, 1885, just hours after the one-time Commanding General of the U.S. Army and former President of the United States had passed on. Taking note of the extraordinary tributes and declarations of love expressed by people in all regions of the country, black and white, as Grant endured a months-long struggle with throat cancer, the paper asserted that such praise had "sweetened the draught from Death's chalice, till all the bitterness of the deadly poison had passed away, and it was but as drinking from the Holy Grail." In this work, Ulysses S. Grant--The Story of a Hero, Garry Boulard chronicles the career of one of the most consequential figures in American history. Rightly regarded as a great military commander whose skills and strategic vision combined to bring about the end of the Civil War, thus also forever obliterating a slavery that had entrapped nearly 4 million people, Grant would serve two controversial terms as president, working assiduously to foster a regional and racial reconciliation of the country. At the time of his death, he had just completed his monumental two-volume Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, since praised by generations of historians and regarded as one of the most important works in all of American non-fiction literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781663263162
• Artikelnr.: 72309205

Autorenporträt

Boulard is the author of The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce--a Story of a President and the Civil War (iUniverse, 2006); The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan (iUniverse, 2015); and Andrew Johnson--The Renaissance of an American Politician (iUniverse, 2021). The author can be reached at: [e-mail]. Cover Photo Credit: Wikipedia