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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Capa dura – Ilustrado, 4 dezembro 2018

Edição Inglês por Ulysses S Grant (Autor), Elizabeth D Samet (Editor)

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One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table.

Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or presenting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a richly annotated, highly collectible edition that will fascinate Civil War buffs. The edition also breaks new ground in its attack on the "Lost Cause" revisionism that still distorts our national conversation about the legacy of the Civil War. Never has Grant's transformation from tanner's son to military leader been more insightfully and passionately explained than in this timely edition, appearing on the 150th anniversary of Grant's 1868 presidential election.

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Elizabeth D. Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD in English literature from Yale. She is the author of No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America (Macmillan); and Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (FSG & Picador), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2007; and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 (Stanford UP). Her essays and reviews have been published in various venues, including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. Samet is a professor of English at West Point. She speaks often to both civilian and military audiences on the role of literature in shaping future military officers, and she was a member of the Army Chief of Staff's 2011-2012 Task Force on Leader Development. She has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR, and the BBC World Service.

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Editora ‏ : ‎ Liveright Publishing Corporation; Annotated edição (4 dezembro 2018)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglês
Capa dura ‏ : ‎ 1152 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1631492446
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1631492440
Dimensões ‏ : ‎ 19.3 x 5.59 x 23.88 cm

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Big John Stud

Classic Memoir With the Most Definitive Annotations Ever

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 17 de março de 2023

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Truly remarkable edition of Grant's Memoirs, one so fully annotated that it will boggle your mind. It's satisfying to see Grant receive the forgotten credit that is his due through this edition. You can also find a terrific account of his life in Ron Chernow and Ronald White's biographies. Plus, a book I highly recommend, is Mark Perry's, Grant and Twain, a fascinating story that tells how a swindled and debt-ridden Grant, facing death from cancer, wrote and published his memoirs with the help of Mark Twain. For readers of Samet's edition, it's important to remember that the memoirs are a first-person account, an astounding primary source, written by a hard-scrabble farmer, a soldier and recovered alcoholic, who would become the country's leading general and future president. Grant is America's Imperator, a title bestowed by a grateful Republic - a gift to its victorious general. Revered in his time, it was only after his death that Grant's history was maligned and rewritten, depicted as a drunk and corrupt president (the patronage system almost assured corruption for any president), and as a bumpkin bereft of any skill, a man who was only lucky. Of course all of this is nonsense and completely detached from reality. Ulysses Grant's wartime resume is unmatched. He is the only general that compelled the surrender of three complete armies (Ft. Donelson, Vicksburg, and Appomattox). No other general, on either side, did this even one time. Grant's Tomb and his Capitol Memorial are vivid examples of the esteem with which he was held. Contemporary voices tell us more. Abraham Lincoln: "General Grant is the most extraordinary man in command that I know of." Frederick Douglass: "To Grant more than any other man, the negro owes his enfranchisement...A man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point. In him the negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior... One of the noblest, wisest and best men I ever knew." And this quote from an adversary, Confederate Vice President, Alexander Stephens is most illuminating: "His spare figure, simple manners, lack of ostentation, extreme politeness and charm of conversation were a revelation to me, for I had pictured him as a man of a directly opposite type of character, and expected to find in him only the bluntness of a soldier. Notwithstanding the fact that he talks so well, it is plain he has more brains than tongue. He is one of the most remarkable men I have ever met. He does not seem aware of his powers." The picture of Ulysses Grant is complex and compelling and you can't go wrong reading his own words. Thanks to Elizabeth Samet for placing Grant's words in context through her annotations. It's a daunting book, well over a 1,000 pages, richly illustrated, and in a time when history is being threatened, it's reassuring to hear from Grant directly, in what is universally considered the greatest memoirs of any president. Grant was a general who led armies into battle. A president who tried to implement Reconstruction, to place the country on a path for greater social justice. Will we ever get there? Who knows? But if you take away just one thing from Grant's Memoirs, it's the first paragraph of his conclusion. It says it all. Not the War Between the States but the War of the Rebellion. Here's Grant's paragraph: The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

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Howard Schulman

Excellent

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 20 de janeiro de 2023

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I was very surprised that this memoire written by President Grant at the very end of his days was extremely readable and well written. The extensive and "complete" notes by Samet are great, but the total length of the book is daunting, 1000 pages, though to speed things up you need only refer to the notes when your interest peaks....which may be often.

I discovered it touring the Grant’s Tomb in Manhattan, on display inside. I can highly recommending taking a walk through, as most people in NYC and elsewhere have no idea of what a historic treasure exists up in Harlem, near Columbia University.

I had just read Ron Chernow’s book on US Grant and thought it would be interesting to browse through this book, but ended up reading about 100 pages, very satisfied. I was a little let down when I realized that the book only goes up to the end of the Civil War. Nothing about Grant’s time during the Johnson administration or his own. So having just read Chernow, which I can also highly recommend, I decided to go onto other books. But just for pure entertainment and interest, I could easily have stayed with it. It seems like most of the book is military, and that is why I moved on.

Nevertheless, it is extremely readable and probably offered historians and others a huge gift when it was written. It immediately became a huge nationwide best-seller, too. It was written as Grant lay dying of throat cancer. He wrote it to provide funds for his wife, having lost money through bad business deals. Mark Twain arranged a favorable publishing deal, needed to give Grant his due, for a change. Samet’s notes are great, too.

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Billy Blackmon

I disliked the annotations at first. I read the part by Grant and came to enjoy many annotations

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 19 de outubro de 2022

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Amazing book. Mark Twain helped Grant write it and it is outstanding with fascinating detail. I suggest read first Grants writing occasionally referring to the annotations. The more I read the more I like the annotations. The writer did incredible tremendous work and they add so much to the book.

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DLC

A MUST READ. What an incredible man. Current occupant of WH could benefit from wisdom of Grant

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 17 de setembro de 2020

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I first watched GRANT on the History Channel and had the greatest respect for him. It stated that when he was told he would die soon, he wanted to ensure financial security for his wife, so he spent his last days writing his memoirs which are filled with such interesting historical facts, along with is personal reflections and insight. Wow, what a life. What he had to face would make most men these days break. They couldn't recover. He was one of the reasons our country survived. He has my absolute respect and I think this should be mandatory reading for all Seniors in High school or in College. Its just wonderful. Anyone who reads it will become wiser. Read it as a HUMAN BEING not as a registered Republican or Democrat. We are really so pathetically superficial now .

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Charles Sherry

General Grant the Force oof the Union Army

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A in-depth look at the thought process and clear decision making ability of General Grant. His steady hand after his selection by President Lincoln to lead the Union Army made all the difference in the following campaigns. It was not pretty or easy or without problems and lost battles but it was a great success and ended the conflict. He was a great American hero.

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