James P’s Reviews > American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant > Status Update
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Best of 5 recent Grant bios...JE Smith, CW Calhoun, R Chernow, and J Bunting III. Keen insight in unique facets of Grants character. New bios overcome the prejudice of Chas Sumner and Henry Adams both mortal enemies of Grant bent on destroying his reputation. Grant was regarded as #3 of top US presidents through the gilded age and started to suffer attacks on his reputation after TR and WW...
— Dec 20, 2019 08:56PM
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James P
is on page 273 of 864
Very enjoyable to read...many new tidbits (I’m on my 5th Grant bio), going to jump ahead to read some selected portions. Ch on KKK shows Grant’s true character standing up to the depravity of a very pernicious minority!
— Sep 14, 2018 06:27AM
James P
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Great read. Hits a lot of details omitted by Calhoun, Smith and Chernow...
— Sep 11, 2018 07:18PM
