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American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant / Ronald C. White

By: White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric), 1939- [author]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: xxvii, 826 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781400069026; 1400069025Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 | American Civil War (1861-1865) | 1861-1877 | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | Generals -- United States -- Biography | Generals | Politics and government | Presidents | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State | HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography | United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877 | United StatesGenre/Form: Biographies. | Biography. | History. | Biographies.
Contents:
Part I. Formation 1630-1848 -- "My family is American" -- "My Ulysses" -- West Point -- "Dear Julia" -- "By treaty or the sword" -- "Army of invasion" -- Part II. Trial 1848-1861 -- Panama -- "Forsaken" -- "Hardscrabble" -- Galena -- Part II. Transformation 1861-1865 -- "I am in to do all I can" -- Belmont -- "Unconditional surrender" -- Shiloh -- William Tecumseh Sherman -- "More than forty Richmonds" -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- "Washington's legitimate successor" -- "Battle of the Wilderness" -- Robert E. Lee -- Petersburg -- Appomattox -- Part IV. Reconstruction 1865-1868 -- "I will keep my word" -- "More & more radical" -- "Let us have peace" -- Part V. President 1869-1877 -- "Gold panic" -- "A radical change in Indian policy" -- "Foreign relations" -- Ku Klux Klan -- "The Gilded Age" -- "Malfeasance!" -- Centennial crisis -- Part VI. World citizen 1879-1885 -- American ambassador abroad -- Grant & Ward -- Final campaign -- Epilogue
Summary: A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents"-- Amazon.com
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-787) and index

Part I. Formation 1630-1848 -- "My family is American" -- "My Ulysses" -- West Point -- "Dear Julia" -- "By treaty or the sword" -- "Army of invasion" -- Part II. Trial 1848-1861 -- Panama -- "Forsaken" -- "Hardscrabble" -- Galena -- Part II. Transformation 1861-1865 -- "I am in to do all I can" -- Belmont -- "Unconditional surrender" -- Shiloh -- William Tecumseh Sherman -- "More than forty Richmonds" -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- "Washington's legitimate successor" -- "Battle of the Wilderness" -- Robert E. Lee -- Petersburg -- Appomattox -- Part IV. Reconstruction 1865-1868 -- "I will keep my word" -- "More & more radical" -- "Let us have peace" -- Part V. President 1869-1877 -- "Gold panic" -- "A radical change in Indian policy" -- "Foreign relations" -- Ku Klux Klan -- "The Gilded Age" -- "Malfeasance!" -- Centennial crisis -- Part VI. World citizen 1879-1885 -- American ambassador abroad -- Grant & Ward -- Final campaign -- Epilogue

A "biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents"-- Amazon.com

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