Bibliograph

Grant, Ron Chernow

Type

Label

Grant, Ron Chernow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1021-1031) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Grant

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

9731155561002406995

Responsibility statement

Ron Chernow

Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency

Target audience

general

Classification