Yet a judiciously annotated edition of these memoirs has never been produced until now. Bush, credit Grant with influencing their own writing.
Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents, including Clinton and George W. Grant's memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader's enjoyment of Grant's fluent narrative."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant Never has Grant’s transformation from tanner’s son to military leader been more insightfully and passionately explained than in this timely edition, appearing on the 150th anniversary of Grant’s 1868 presidential election."This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The edition also breaks new ground in its attack on the “Lost Cause” revisionism that still distorts our national conversation about the legacy of the Civil War. Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or presenting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a richly annotated, highly collectible edition that will fascinate Civil War buffs. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table. One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant’s landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs yet published. With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D.
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