TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flood,Charles Bracelen
TI  - Grant's final victory: Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year 
SN  - 9780306820281
AV  - E672 .F56 2011
U1  - 973.8/2092B 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - sears
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Generals
KW  - Last years of a person's life
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index; A change in fortune -- The man waiting for more bad news -- The lady at 3 East Sixty-sixth Street -- Retreat to New Jersey -- An opportunity -- To eat a peach, and soldier on -- Grant puts on his armor -- Mark Twain strides onto the stage -- Horses, and a last cigar -- A bittersweet Christmas -- Things come together -- Twenty years after the nation's great redemptive moment ; Reactions to a sick hero ; Unmarked anniversaries -- The "man of iron" keeps going -- Another loan from Vanderbilt -- Sunlight and shadow -- Good-bye, Ulyss. And thank you
N2  - Recounts the last year of the former president's life, after losing his fortune, discovering he had cancer, and his race to complete his memoirs --
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35990
UR  - http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Charles-Bracelen-Flood/44820281
ER  -