![]() ![]() ![]() Grant wrote his memoirs while he was dying of cancer in order to provide Julia with a comfortable living after his death. One of the best ways to do that is to read his own words in the most famous military memoir since Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. To understand America’s history of trying to deal with race, you need to know about Grant. Grant served as wartime battlefield leader, peacetime military commander and post-war president. ![]() The time before that was during the 1860s and 1870s - the exact period when Ulysses S. The last time this happened was in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. history when Americans focus closely on race. With Confederate statues coming down and Black Lives Matter rising, our era is turning out to be one of those times in U.S. I don’t usually start a book review with a dust jacket blurb, but this one from Coates shows why Grant is more important today than ever. ![]() The warrior transformed into a warrior-poet.” - Ta Nehisi Coates “There is so much there…A tanner’s son, failing at so much, turned savior of his country. ![]()
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