[Non-Sequitur]

I hear that sales of his ‘memoirs’ basically paid the rent later in his life. I keep meaning to read them as they are said to be the best of any presidential memoirs.

It paid the rent for Mrs. Grant for the rest of her life. Grant himself died within weeks of finishing it. As a piece of trivia, Grant's publisher was his close personal friend, Mark Twain.

[allmendream]

No wonder they are reputed to be the best Presidential memoirs, if Mark Twain published them. Mark Twain published the best stuff out during that time, mostly himself! ;)