{"product_id":"ulysses-s-grant-the-unlikely-hero-isbn-9780062279774","title":"Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a\u003cbr\u003eshort life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and\u003cbr\u003eunprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself:\u003cbr\u003eunambiguous, decisive, clear. The book is a joy to read.”  --Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning\u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first officer since George Washington to become a\u003cbr\u003efour-star general in the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant was a man who\u003cbr\u003emanaged to end the Civil War on a note of grace, and was the only president\u003cbr\u003ebetween Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in\u003cbr\u003ethe White House. The son of an Ohio tanner, he has long been remembered as a\u003cbr\u003ebrilliant general but a failed president whose second term ended in financial\u003cbr\u003eand political scandal. But now acclaimed, bestselling author Michael Korda\u003cbr\u003eoffers a dramatic reconsideration of the man, his life, and his\u003cbr\u003epresidency. Ulysses S. Grant is an evenhanded and stirring portrait\u003cbr\u003eof a flawed leader who nevertheless ably guided America through a pivotal\u003cbr\u003ejuncture in its history.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA lavishly illustrated edition of Michael Korda's acclaimed biography of the man who ended the Civil War, served two terms as president, and wrote one of the most successful military memoirs in American literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army, and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. In this succinct and vivid biography, newly conceived with twenty-four pages of full-color art and many black-and-white illustrations throughout, Michael Korda offers a dramatic reconsideration of the man, his life, and his presidency. \u003cem\u003eUlysses S. Grant\u003c\/em\u003e is an evenhanded and stirring portrait of a flawed leader who nevertheless ably guided the United States through a pivotal juncture in its history.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself: unambiguous, decisive, clear. The book is a joy to read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLarry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this compact, vivid biography of the Eisenhower of the American Civil War, Michael Korda distills Grant’s concentrated essence. His portraiture is incisive, his battle scenes superb.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Rhodes, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Making of the Atom Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Those whose only perception of Ulysses S. Grant is that of an all-but-forgotten Civil War general, an inept president, and a failed businessman would do well to read Michael Korda’s short but illuminating biography. Korda’s insightful reassessment of this ‘unlikely hero’ will change your view. He concludes that a greater understanding of how Grant confronted the watershed crises of his era has major relevance today as America wrestles with equally far-reaching military and political issues of a scope and importance not unlike those of the mid-nineteenth century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry Kissinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ulysses S. Grant was America’s very own anti-Napoleon: a general who hated war, a politician who served without charisma, a man of humility who eschewed myths about himself. Korda’s book is a telling of Grant’s life that is true to the thought and style of the subject: simple, clear, and deeply original. The sections comparing Grant to Ike or the recounting of the creation of Grant’s bestselling memoirs are worth the price of the book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Englund, author of Napoleon, A Political Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I think you’ve got Grant just right: tender-hearted and remorseless, unpromising at the start, but then a natural commander, shy and vain, the archetypal little man achieving giant stature. Your description of him at the end is terrific!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJustin D. Kaplan Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Korda’s volume is interested in investigating the psychology of one of the great Americans of the 19th century. He examines Grant’s successes and failures and shows the parts of his character that are evident in both. In doing so, he produces a gripping study of the man, operating successfully under the stresses of war, enduring failure in the stresses of peace, and coping with his fatal cancer. It is a broad, sweeping view of the man’s life...an admirable introduction to one of the great men of American history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lively and well-constructed. . . . An excellent introduction to an important American life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Make[s] Grant, for all his taciturnity and shyness, a fascinating and major historical player.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Korda does about as good a job of bringing Grant to life as possible and handles all the essential set pieces—Grant as Mexican War officer, Civil War general, president and author of masterful memoirs on the eve of his death—with much skill.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889193513189,"sku":"NP9780062279774","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062279774.jpg?v=1730230723","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ulysses-s-grant-the-unlikely-hero-isbn-9780062279774","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}