American Ulysses av Ronald C. Jr. White

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • From the author of <i>A. Lincoln, </i>a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents</b><br><br><b>Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book Prize<br></b><br> In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In <i>American Ulysses,</i> Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first.<br><br> Based on seven years of research with primary documents—some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars—this is destined to become <i>the </i>Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at