Pub Date: April 9, 2002
Dewey: B
LCCN: 00053794
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.80" H x 9.10" L x 6.20" W ( 2.40 lbs) 784 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Presidents and Heads of State | Military | History | United States | Civil War Period 18501877 | Historical
Description: In this magnificent biography, Jean Edward Smith skillfully reconciles the disparate, conflicting assessments of Ulysses S. Grant, confirming his genius as a general, but convincingly showing that Grant's presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories. 40 photos.
Brief description: Jean Edward Smith taught at the University of Toronto for thirty-five years, and at Marshall University for twelve. He was also a visiting scholar at Columbia, Princeton, and Georgetown. He is the author of Bush, a biography of the 43rd president; Eisenhower in War and Peace; FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians; Grant, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; and The Liberation of Paris.
Review Quotes: "In the ongoing positive reevaluation of Grant's career, this is the best full-scale biography to have appeared."