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Grant (book)
biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow
Grant is a 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 to Chernow asserts that both Grant's command of the Overland campaign and his presidency have been seen in an undeservedly negative light.
Background
[edit]Chernow had previously written about two Founding Fathers, in a biography of Alexander Hamilton () and George Washington (). "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. But to my mind, the big story of his presidency is he's really farsighted in courageous action in terms of protecting former slaves who are now full-fledged American citizens.
—Ron Chernow on the historical reputation of Ulysses S. Grant[1]
Proponents of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, Chernow argues, demon
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant’s ancestors first came to America in , Englishman Mathew Grant landing in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Grant was always extremely proud of his forebears, but the most important individuals in his lineage were his mother and father.
His father Jesse spent part of his early years living in the home of the father of the famous abolitionist, John Brown. His quiet mother Hannah Simpson Grant came from Pennsylvania parents who were die-hard Jacksonian Democrats. The two married in June of , and their first born, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April 27, It was only later when the congressman who nominated him for West Point erroneously recorded him as Ulysses S. Grant that he was able to shed the embarrassment of his true initials: H.U.G.
Grant’s father sent him to the United States Military Academy where he graduated 21st out of a class of 39, excelling in mathematics. The last year at West Point he roomed with Frederick Dent the son of a slave-holding family from St. Louis, Missouri. Grant, whose family was opposed to slavery, regularly rode to the Dent plantation and there he met Julia Dent. They agreed to marry in May of , but the Mexican-American War intervened, and the marriage did not happen until August 22,
The marriage resulted in fo
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Ron Chernow: Grant
Winter –18, Vol. 49, No. 4 | Authors dig up the Record
Interview by Keith Donohue
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