TY - BOOK AU - White,Ronald C. TI - American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant SN - 9781400069026 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Grant, Ulysses S. KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Generals KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Politics and government KW - 1869-1877 KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents"-- ER -