![]() ![]() Yet a judiciously annotated edition of these memoirs has never been produced until now. Bush, credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents, including Clinton and George W. Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. ![]() The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader’s enjoyment of Grant’s fluent narrative.”-Ron Chernow, author of Grant “This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. ![]()
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