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　　Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses

S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the

most notable literary achievement of any American president: a

lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and

failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the

grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically "rescued" him,

these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a

brilliant man, told with great courage as he reflects on the

fortunes that shaped his life and his character. Written under

excruciating circumstances (as Grant was dying of throat cancer),

encouraged and edited from its very inception by Mark Twain, it is

a triumph of the art of autobiography.

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　　Ulysses S. Grant, commander in chief of the Union forces

during the final years of the Civil War and eighteenth president of

the United States, was born on April 27, 1822, and died on July 23,

1885, less than one week after completing work on this book.

　　Caleb Carr is the bestselling author of the novels The Alienist

and The Angel of Darkness, as well as a critically acclaimed

biography of an American mercenary, The Devil Soldier. He writes

frequently on military history for The New York Times and MHQ: The

Quarterly Journal of Military History, where he is a contributing

editor.

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　　Destitute and wracked by throat cancer, Ulysses S. Grant

finished writing his Personal Memoirs shortly before his death in

1885. Today their clear prose stands as a model of autobiography.

Civil War soldiers are often celebrated for the high literary

quality of the letters they sent home from the front lines; Grant's

own book is probably the best piece of writing produced by a

participant in the War Between the States. Apart from Lincoln, no

man deserves more credit for securing the Northern victory than

Grant, and this chronicle of campaigns and battles tells how he did

it. (The book also made a bundle of money for his family, which had

been reeling from the failure of Grant's brokerage firm.) This is

not an overview of the entire Civil War; as the North was beating

the South on the third day of Gettysburg, for example, Grant was in

Mississippi capturing Vicksburg. But it is a great piece of

writing, one that can be appreciated even by readers with little

interest in military history. --John J. Miller

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One of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature. --William McFeeley

Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically "rescued" him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man, told with great courage as he reflects on the fortunes that shaped his life and his character. Written under excruciating circumstances (as Grant was dying of throat cancer), encouraged and edited from its very inception by Mark Twain, it is a triumph of the art of autobiography.

The books in the Modern Library War series have been chosen by series editor Caleb Carr according to the significance of their subject matter, their contribution to the field of military history, and their literary merit.