This author is challenging what we know about Ulysses Grant and the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant led the Union's victory in the civil war before serving two terms as president. Was he a brutal general and incompetent president -- or a brilliant ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a new look at the American general who became president in the aftermath of the Civil War. Jeffrey Brown has this addition to the "NewsHour" Bookshelf. JEFFREY BROWN: He was a lumbering, brutal general, an incompetent president, or he was a brilliant strategist and a far-sighted political leader who belongs in the American pantheon. Ulysses S. Grant, who led Union forces to victory in the Civil War and then served two terms as president, has stirred a range of responses from his own time to ours. He wrote his own acclaimed memoir, and has been the subject of numerous biographies. Now comes "Grant" by Ron Chernow, who's made a specialty of writing of big historical figures, including George Washington, J.P. Morgan, and Alexander Hamilton. ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a new look at the American general who became president in the aftermath of the Civil War. Jeffrey Brown has this addition to the "NewsHour" Bookshelf. JEFFREY BROWN: He was a lumbering, brutal general, an incompetent president, or he was a brilliant strategist and a far-sighted political leader who belongs in the American pantheon. Ulysses S. Grant, who led Union forces to victory in the Civil War and then served two terms as president, has stirred a range of responses from his own time to ours. He wrote his own acclaimed memoir, and has been the subject of numerous biographies. Now comes "Grant" by Ron Chernow, who's made a specialty of writing of big historical figures, including George Washington, J.P. Morgan, and Alexander Hamilton. ...
