I’ve got Grant’s memoir sitting on the shelf beside me. It is indeed a great read.
IMO I think his publisher Mark Twain helped him.
Find out what kind of whiskey he drinks so I can send a barrel of it to all my generals. - A. Lincoln
I’ve got Grant’s memoir sitting on the shelf beside me. It is indeed a great read.
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Grant wrote it as he was dying from throat cancer to make money for his wife to live on. At the time, there wasn’t much of a retirement for an officer or a president. And his wealth had been wiped out by his crook of a partner in his Wall Street firm. Mark Twain was the publisher. The memoir is short and entertaining. I’ve been a fan of Grant since reading it.
He went from being a clerk in his father’s store, to the most famous man in the world in the span of a few years.