Grant's final victory : Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year / Charles Bracelen Flood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2011.Edition: 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: xvi, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306820281
  • 0306820285
  • 9780306821516
  • 0306821516
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.8/2092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E672 .F56 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 -- Source other than the Library of Congress.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.

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 -- Source other than the Library of Congress.

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.

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