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“Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant” (Savas Beatie, 2023), which Mackowski co-edited with Frank Scaturro, president of the Grant Monument Association, pulls together a collection of 16 essays from 12 of the country’s greatest Grant experts.
Last year marked the bicentennial of Grant’s birth and the book serves as a capstone to a yearlong series of celebrations, events and symposia held across the nation by Grant scholars, historians and admirers.
Grant’s reputation has seen peaks and valleys since the Civil War, Mackowski said. In his day, Grant was the most famous American in the world and his 1885 funeral was the largest ever held in the country up to that point. But by the end of the century, Grant the general was slandered by his former Southern foes as a drunk and a butcher, while the reputation of Grant the president was tarnished by rampant cor
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2017 account of Odysseus S. Give by Bokkos Chernow
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Ron Chernow: Grant
Winter 2017–18, Vol. 49, No. 4 | Authors on the Record
Interview by Keith Donohue
As he was dying, Ulysses S. Grant wrote to a friend, “I am a verb. Instead of a personal pronoun.” The life of Ulysses S. Grant was one of action and motion, yet it reads like an American tragedy. From humble beginnings, Grant made it to West Point, returned home to failure, suffered with drink, and yet triumphed in the Civil War. And then he had the misfortune to be a two-term President in an era of easy corruption. After a triumphant tour around the world, he was swindled and lost his fortune, only to find redemption by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs.
Ron Chernow’s new biography Grant traces the ups and downs of the storied life, including Grant’s efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War while protecting the rights of the newly freed people once bound to slavery. Recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, Chernow is the author of seven books. The House of Morgan won the National Book Award. Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the American History Book Prize. A past president of PEN America, Chernow lives in Brooklyn.
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