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A portrait of Grant's public and private life depicts his childhood in Ohio, military career, and experiences in the Civil War.

Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less...

His friends called him "Sam." His wife called him "Ulyss." His initials suggested a name evocative of one of his most important battlefield successes: "'Unconditional Surrender' Grant." Ulysses S. Grant...

"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." -Ron Chernow, in Grant Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses...

Author: Bret Baier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew rivalries in military history have captured the American imagination quite like that of Ulysses S. Grant and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedCondition remarks: boards bright and clean; binding remains tight; tissue guard over frontis. One of the most celebrated...

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Author: Grant Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 In a world where paranoia is a survival skill, the only hope for humankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom...

Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

Granta 100 will be edited by William Boyd and will include pieces by: Martin Amis Julian Barnes Bill Buford AM Homes Ian Jack Mario Vargas Llosa Nicholas Shakespeare Ian McEwan...

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching...

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Appealing to both those who like to travel and those who just like to read about travel, this book features entries about a wide variety of locations in a style...

India is familiar ground for Granta , having devoted two classic issues to the country, though much has changed since the last dispatch, published on the cusp of the Modi...

The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a...

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Author: Angus Deaton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid...

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Coming up in Granta 103, a brilliant investigation into the rise of the British jihad by Richard Watson, fiction from James Lasdun, Thamima Anam, Daniel Alarcon and Jennifer Haigh; poetry...

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Chris Dennis on parenting, Charif Majdalani (tr. Ruth Diver)...

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An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's...

Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges -- A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and Granta editor Bill Buford --...

A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our...

The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural...