· Chernow's Grant is humble, quiet, and playful—moody in peacetime but a genius in wartime. As other historians have painted Grant as a raging drunkard, Chernow sheds light on Grant's lifetime battle with alcohol as a disease, rather than a bltadwin.ru · Grant by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, Cloth, IBSN: $ The standard interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant’s life usually recounts an undistinguished West Point and antebellum army career ended by alcohol abuse, followed by a meteoric rise in rank and responsibility during the Civil War, followed by a failed presidency riddled by scandal and then a triumphant memoir . Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses Format: Paperback.
Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant, military victor of the Civil War and a middling American president, contains much of value but is ultimately disappointing in capturing Grant as a person and public figure. His page Grant is over-written and unfocused. It is repetitive, making the same point — often in very similar words. The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of "Eminently readable but thick with import Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The AtlanticPulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. 'Grant,' by Ron Chernow. Dan Cryer. Oct. 12, Facebook Twitter Email. 3. 1 of 3 "Grant" Penguin Press Show More Show Less 2 of 3 Ron Chernow Beowulf Sheehan Show More Show Less. 3 of 3.
Grant is a biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow. Grant, a Union general during the Civil War, served two terms as president, from to Chernow asserts that both Grant's command of the Overland campaign and his presidency have been seen in an undeservedly negative light. Chernow's Grant is humble, quiet, and playful—moody in peacetime but a genius in wartime. As other historians have painted Grant as a raging drunkard, Chernow sheds light on Grant's lifetime battle with alcohol as a disease, rather than a vice. Ron Chernow has written a magisterial, but eminently readable, page account of the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the Union military genius who won the Civil War, and subsequently the two-time President who championed the freedom of the former slave population of the South through his policy of Reconstruction.
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