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  • The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Part 2

  • March 4, 1861 - March 26, 1864
  • By: Ulysses S. Grant
  • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
  • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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By: Ulysses S. Grant
Narrated by: Peter Johnson
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Of the memoirs of his unlikely friend, Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain wrote, "The fact remains and cannot be dislodged that General Grant's book is a great, unique and unapproachable literary masterpiece... [The] style is at least flawless, and no man can improve upon it." Such is the general consensus surrounding this essential American tome, which was finished just days before Grant’s death and focuses on his Civil War years.

Performed in a mature, elegant voice and without flair by Peter Johnson - himself a Grant scholar, writer, and lauded audiobook performer - these poignant and often sad memoirs are the final exertions of a dying warrior whose hard-won conclusion rings a note of optimism that someday Federals and Confederates may live together in peace. Have we?

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Covering the pivotal years 1861-1864, General Ulysses S. Grant leads us in his own words from Fort Sumter to his appointment as commander of all the armies of the North. Grant remembers his experiences with the key players of the day, takes us onto the battlefields, and recounts the twists and turns of fate. Grant was a failed peacetime soldier, failed farmer, failed woodcutter, failed bill collector, and 38-year-old clerk in a harness store in the spring of 1861. By 1864, he was directing all the Union forces.
Public Domain (P)2010 Recorded Books, Inc.
Historical American Civil War Presidents & Heads of State Military
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"No American president has told his story as powerfully as Ulysses S. Grant." (William S. McFeely, historian)

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An absolute must read for any civil war buff. Grant is entertaining, straight forward and funny.

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