Grant's Final Victory : Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
ISBN: 9780306820281 | 0306820285
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 10/11/2011
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Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin. As Grant continued his work, suffering increasing pain, the American public became aware of this race between Grant's writing and his fatal illness. Twenty years after his respectful and magnanimous demeanor toward Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, people in both the North and the South came to know Grant as the brav... MORE
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Change in Fortune | p. 1 |
| The Man Waiting for More Bad News | p. 15 |
| The Lady at 3 East Sixty-sixth Street | p. 23 |
| Retreat to New Jersey | p. 45 |
| An Opportunity | p. 55 |
| To Eat a Peach, and Soldier On | p. 73 |
| Grant Puts On His Armor | p. 81 |
| Mark Twain Strides onto the Stage | p. 91 |
| Horses, and a Last Cigar... MORE | p. 107 |
| A Bittersweet Christmas | p. 117 |
| Things Come Together | p. 135 |
| Twenty Years After the Nation's Great Redemptive Moment | p. 149 |
| Reactions to a Sick Hero | p. 161 |
| Unmarked Anniversaries | p. 175 |
| The "Man of Iron" Keeps Going | p. 181 |
| Another Loan from Vanderbilt | p. 187 |
| Sunlight and Shadow | p. 213 |
| Good-bye, Ulyss. And Thank You | p. 239 |
| Notes | p. 249 |
| Biblography | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 275 |
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