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Ulysses S. Grant
Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
2000
First Published
4.11
Average Rating
560
Number of Pages
A compelling biography of the Union general challenges stereotypes of Grant as a drunk and a bumbler, focusing on his brilliant military career and his political evolution into a man who came to see the war as the necessary destroyer of slavery. Tour.
Avg Rating
4.11
Number of Ratings
151
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Brooks D. Simpson
Author · 8 books
Brooks Donohue Simpson is an historian who is the ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in studies of the American Civil War.
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