Description: With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant's Memoirs yet published.
Brief description: Elizabeth D. Samet is a professor of English and the author of four books, including Looking for the Good War. She has also edited, among other volumes, the Norton Anthology Leadership and The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. She lives in New York.
Review Quotes: There is so much there... A tanner's son, failing at so much, turned savior of his country. A slaveholder turned mass emancipator. The warrior transformed into a warrior-poet.--Ta-Nehisi Coates on Grant's Personal Memoirs