There is a level of intimacy that no amount of confessional writing could guarantee. “Grant’s style is direct and plain, but it has a kind of quiet music to it, the indescribable quality of an authentic voice.
White, author of American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Their annotated edition will increase appreciation among both longtime admirers and a new generation discovering why Grant is winning his deserved place among American leaders.
Renowned Civil War historian John Marszalek and his team of editors are owed our gratitude. “If Mark Twain called Grant’s Memoirs ‘a great, unique and unapproachable literary masterpiece,’ The Complete Annotated Edition is its ‘unique’ companion. “ new edition, the most thoroughly annotated ever produced, provides the general reader and scholar alike with detailed access to the general’s early life and military career. If Grant’s voice is never confessional, it almost never rings false… Grant’s style is strikingly modern in its economy. “A richly annotated new edition… What gives this peculiarly reticent book its power? Above all, authenticity. Grant Presidential Library are building a formidable array of books illuminating many aspects of the general’s life. Marszalek and the folks at the Ulysses S.
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. Grant’s Personal Memoirs, this fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. “As the first fully annotated edition of Ulysses S.
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