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05875aam a2200757 i 4500 001 A274BEB4FAD211E7A45C351A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180116092551 008 170725t20172016nyuab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2017302124 020 $a 0812981251 020 $a 9780812981254 035 $a (OCoLC)988947112 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d CD5 $d YDX $d BDX $d ZAC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E672 $b .W48 2017 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a White, Ronald C. $q (Ronald Cedric), $d 1939- $e author. 245 10 $a American Ulysses : $b a life of Ulysses S. Grant / $c Ronald C. White. 250 $a Random House trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c [2017] 300 $a xxvii, 826 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-787) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents"-- $c Amazon.com. 520 $a "In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American Leaders." But the battlefield commander-turned-commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first. Based on seven years of research with primary documents--some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars--this is destined to become the Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at writing momentous history from the inside out, shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leader--a willing delegator with a natural gift for managing the rampaging egos of his fellow officers. His wife, Julia Dent Grant, long marginalized in the historic record, emerges in her own right as a spirited and influential partner. Grant was not only a brilliant general but also a passionate defender of equal rights in post-Civil War America. After winning election to the White House in 1868, he used the power of the federal government to battle the Ku Klux Klan. He was the first president to state that the government's policy toward American Indians was immoral, and the first ex-president to embark on a world tour, and he cemented his reputation for courage by racing against death to complete his Personal Memoirs. Published by Mark Twain, it is widely considered to be the greatest autobiography by an American leader, but its place in Grant's life story has never been fully explored--until now."--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $q (Ulysses Simpson), $d 1822-1885. 600 14 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $q Ulysses Simpson, $d 1822-1885. 600 17 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $q (Ulysses Simpson), $d 1822-1885. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00061535 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 600 17 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $d 1822-1885 $2 gnd 600 17 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $q (Ulysses Simpson), $d 1822-1885. $2 sears 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1869-1877. 650 1 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 650 4 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 650 4 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 651 4 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Biography. 651 4 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1869-1877. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Military. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Presidents & Heads of State. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Civil War Period (1850-1877) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Generals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939841 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Presidents. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075723 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. $2 sears 651 7 $a United States $x History $y 1861-1865, Civil War $v Biography. $2 sears 651 7 $a United States $x Politics and government. $2 sears 648 7 $a 1861-1877 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018013142.0 952 $l YFPC572 $d 20221022012738.0 952 $l ECPA325 $d 20210430092512.0 $m Bio Gra 952 $l PYAX423 $d 20191001012733.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20180912010212.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A274BEB4FAD211E7A45C351A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search