Michael’s Reviews > The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition > Status Update

Read the first chapter to the boys at bedtime. While Grant's prose isn't nearly as succinct and simple as Hemingway's, it is direct and the logical progression of the things he is recounting has a similar feeling to Hemingway. Really impressed by how he so neatly captured his childhood in a single chapter, and EXTREMELY blown away (as were my boys) by how much he did (relative to today's kids) at such a young age.