Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 /

Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose, and sim...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 (συγγραφέας.)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by the Viking Press, 1990.
Σειρά:Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States) 50
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