Easton Press: PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT: CIVIL WAR GENERAL: ROBERT E. LEE

Description: Easton Press leather edition of William S. McFeely's "Grant: A Biography," a Collector's edition, one of the LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS series, published in 1987. Bound in tan leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in Near FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. Ulysses S. Grant, who lived from 1822-1885, was the 18th President of the U.S.,1869-1877. Grant married JULIA DENT in 1848, and a day after their wedding, they left St. Louis on a leisurely journey down the Mississippi River and up the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky, where they visited some "wealthy Grant relatives." The Grants became parents to four children, including two sons: Frederick Dent and Jessie. Grant was a very private man and refused to allow his army men to see him naked when he was bathing. Until the Civil War, Grant's life was a litany of failures. Although a WEST POINT graduate and a veteran of the MEXICAN WAR, Grant botched his career in the peacetime army. Shunted from one lonely outpost to another, he resigned his poorly paid commission to enter business----and rapidly went bankrupt. Virtually destitute, Grant borrowed money from his family to buy a tiny farm. For three years he struggled as a humble dirt farmer, often peddling firewood on a street corner in St. Louis. When the farm failed, Grant, nearing 40, begged jobs from friends. In 1861, when the first shots were fired on FORT SUMPTER, the man who would lead the Union Army to victory was a stock clerk in his brother's general store, the only job he could find. Then Destiny intervened: the CIVIL WAR exploded. His capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in early 1862 brought him to President Lincoln's attention and he was promoted to Major General. Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Appomattox. . .the victories rolled on. As President he was honest to a fault, but he unwittingly surrounded himself with dishonest appointees. He did reduce the national debt and negotiated favorable resolution of disputes with Great Britain. Despite BLACK FRIDAY. . . .the Credit Mobilier affair, the Whiskey Ring---scandal followed scandal---he left the Presidency as popular as the day he entered. 592 pages, including an index. I offer Combined shipping.

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