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White, Ronald C. 1939-

American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant / Ronald C. White. - First edition. - xxvii, 826 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-787) and index.

Part I. Formation 1630-1848 -- "My family is American" -- "My Ulysses" -- West Point -- "Dear Julia" -- "By treaty or the sword" -- "Army of invasion" -- Part II. Trial 1848-1861 -- Panama -- "Forsaken" -- "Hardscrabble" -- Galena -- Part II. Transformation 1861-1865 -- "I am in to do all I can" -- Belmont -- "Unconditional surrender" -- Shiloh -- William Tecumseh Sherman -- "More than forty Richmonds" -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- "Washington's legitimate successor" -- "Battle of the Wilderness" -- Robert E. Lee -- Petersburg -- Appomattox -- Part IV. Reconstruction 1865-1868 -- "I will keep my word" -- "More & more radical" -- "Let us have peace" -- Part V. President 1869-1877 -- "Gold panic" -- "A radical change in Indian policy" -- "Foreign relations" -- Ku Klux Klan -- "The Gilded Age" -- "Malfeasance!" -- Centennial crisis -- Part VI. World citizen 1879-1885 -- American ambassador abroad -- Grant & Ward -- Final campaign -- Epilogue.

A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents"--

ISBN: 9781400069026 1400069025

LCCN: 2015044513

Subjects--Personal Names:
Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Generals--United States--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1869-1877.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.