Private Memoirs Of U.s. Grant (Illustrated)

Private Memoirs Of U.s. Grant
By Ulysses S. Grant

Accomplished a short while earlier than his loss of life in 1885, the Private Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is acknowledged at the moment as some of the vital American navy memoirs of all time. In an trustworthy and clever voice, the celebrated Civil Battle basic and former President affords an in depth and intimate telling of the occasions of the Mexican-American conflict, and the American Civil Battle and his position inside it as a Union Common. On the time of its publication, the Private Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant was an instantaneous success—a results of the advertising efforts of Mark Twain, Grant’s writer and private buddy. In an try to help the Grant household in recovering a few of the fortune misplaced when Grant was defrauded of his property, Twain created a nationwide advertising marketing campaign that used Civil Battle veterans as booksellers. The ensuing gross sales of over 350,000 copies allowed the Grant property to be efficiently reestablished and the Memoirs themselves to be acknowledged throughout the canon of American non-fiction.