Grant: A Biography [B1767]

1982 PB in nice clean condition. Pulitzer Prize Winner. "Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."-Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country."-C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books. "Clear-sightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography."-Justin Kaplan, The New Republic.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is one of those rare books that is so good that I read it slowly because I was reluctant to finish it. The author has an interesting and somewhat unusual style, skillfully blending the bare historical facts with his judgments, commentary and opinions, but without (imo) harming the quality of the historical narrative."; "One of the best biographies I have read. It's easy to see why it won a Pulitzer Prize."; "You know you've read a great biography when you learn things about the subject - especially one you admired - that are bitterly disappointing to learn. William S. McFeely approaches Ulysses S. Grant with such honesty and impartiality that the reader is sure to learn many things about Grant that may alter their view of his legacy. Facts are difficult things, but they are essential to biographies, and this stunning, in-depth account of Grant's life is no exception. Perhaps one of the best points of this book is that McFeely covers, in detail, Grant's time in the White House, whereas many other biographies of the 18th President focus more - if not exclusively - on his glory years during the Civil War."