Grant's Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantSavas Beatie, 2015年7月19日 - 192页 "The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financierãUlysses S. Grantãwas dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked 20 cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grantês final battleãa race against his own failing health to complete his Personal Memoirs in an attempt to secure his familyês financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very meaning of the Civil War itself and how it would be remembered. The news of Grantês illness came swift on the heels of his financial ruin. Business partners had swindled him and his family out of everything but the money he and his wife had in their pockets and the family cookie jar. Investors lost millions. The public ire that turned on Grant first suspected malfeasance, then incompetence, then unfortunate, naive neglect. In this maelstrom of woe, Grant refused to surrender. Putting pen to paper, the hero of Appomattox embarked on his final campaign: an effort to write his memoirs before he died. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, would cement his place as not only one of Americaês greatest heroes but also as one of its most sublime literary voices. Filled with personal intrigues of its own and supported by a cast of colorful characters that included Mark Twain, William Vanderbilt, and P. T. Barnum, Grantês Last Battle recounts a deeply personal story as dramatic for Grant as any of his battlefield exploits. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have recounted Grantês battlefield exploits as historians at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Mackowski, as an academic, has studied Grantês literary career. Their familiarity with the former president as a general and as a writer bring Grantês Last Battle to life with new insight, told with the engaging prose that has become the hallmark of the Emerging Civil War Series." |
目录
The Fall | 1 |
The Bottom | 9 |
The New Disaster of Shiloh | 15 |
The Writer | 21 |
The Peach | 29 |
Twain | 35 |
The Winter of Discontent | 45 |
Stage Five | 51 |
The Final March | 83 |
The Last Days of Ulysses S Grant | 93 |
Victory and Loss | 101 |
Where Grant Rests | 109 |
The Last Word | 123 |
Grants Tomb by Pat Tintle | 129 |
Memorializing Grantby Kathleen Logothetis Thompson and Chris Mackowski | 137 |
The Myths of Grant by Edward S Alexander | 147 |
The Greatest Showman on Earth | 55 |
Twains Return | 59 |
Turning Back | 63 |
Crisis and Resurrection | 69 |
Bad Water Bad Blood | 77 |
The Grant Administration by Richard G Frederick | 153 |
The Unlikely Friendship of Grant and Twainby Jim McWilliams | 161 |
Suggested Reading | 164 |
About the Author | 168 |
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