Personal Memoirs Of U. S. Grant (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: boards bright and clean; binding remains tight; tissue guard over frontis.
One of the most celebrated autobiographies in American letters, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant stands as a monumental testament to courage, clarity, and the indomitable will of a man who shaped the destiny of a nation. Written in the final months of Grant's life as he raced against terminal throat cancer, this two-volume work chronicles his boyhood in Ohio, his formative years at West Point, his campaigns in the Mexican-American War, and above all, his commanding generalship of the Union Army through the defining crucible of the American Civil War — from the fall of Fort Donelson to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. What distinguishes this memoir from its contemporaries is Grant's prose: direct, unpretentious, and possessed of a quiet moral authority that belies the epic scale of the events it recounts. Mark Twain, who published the work through his own Charles L. Webster & Company imprint, famously championed it as a literary masterpiece on par with Caesar's Commentaries, and history has borne out that judgement. Celebrated by historians and generals alike for its strategic lucidity and emotional honesty, the Personal Memoirs remains an essential primary source on the Civil War and an enduring portrait of a leader who, in his own words, sought only to do his duty — leaving the reader to wonder what quiet sacrifices greatness truly demands.
Author: U. S. Grant
Format: Hardback
Published: 1885, Charles L. Webster & Co.
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: boards bright and clean; binding remains tight; tissue guard over frontis.
One of the most celebrated autobiographies in American letters, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant stands as a monumental testament to courage, clarity, and the indomitable will of a man who shaped the destiny of a nation. Written in the final months of Grant's life as he raced against terminal throat cancer, this two-volume work chronicles his boyhood in Ohio, his formative years at West Point, his campaigns in the Mexican-American War, and above all, his commanding generalship of the Union Army through the defining crucible of the American Civil War — from the fall of Fort Donelson to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. What distinguishes this memoir from its contemporaries is Grant's prose: direct, unpretentious, and possessed of a quiet moral authority that belies the epic scale of the events it recounts. Mark Twain, who published the work through his own Charles L. Webster & Company imprint, famously championed it as a literary masterpiece on par with Caesar's Commentaries, and history has borne out that judgement. Celebrated by historians and generals alike for its strategic lucidity and emotional honesty, the Personal Memoirs remains an essential primary source on the Civil War and an enduring portrait of a leader who, in his own words, sought only to do his duty — leaving the reader to wonder what quiet sacrifices greatness truly demands.