Eric Byrd’s Reviews > Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Advcersity, 1822-1865 > Status Update

"When Sarah Simpson, fresh from reading Fénelon's Telemachus and thrilled by its dramatic description of Greek heroes, opted for Ulysses, Jesse Grant, seeing yet another opportunity to please his mother-in-law, endorsed the suggestion (perhaps he had a hand in making it, for he had lent the book to Sarah)."