Grant

By: Ron Chernow

Biography & Autobiography

ulysses s. grant's life has typically been misunderstood. all too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal union general of the civil war; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the gilded age. these stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his...