Ebook {Epub PDF} The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace of Texas–Austin history professor Brands (Traitor to His Class) is comprehensive but well-paced and vividly readable; his. From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War.  · The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands Ulysses S. Grant doesn’t get enough credit in the eyes of the general public, either as leader of the Union Army during the Civil War or as Commander in Chief during two terms in office ().

Born , died Washington led the colonists in the American Revolutionary War to win independence from Great Britain. Lincoln believed his most sacred duty was the preservation of the union. - Democrat. Ulysses S. Grant. Examples of Brands' biographical histories include his biographies on Benjamin Franklin, covering the colonial period and the Revolutionary War; Andrew Jackson, covering the War of , western expansion and the The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace (). Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, —March 4, ). Republican. The eighteenth president of the U.S. was an army general during the American Civil War. The Union Army was able to defeat the Confederate effort when Grant was appointed lieutenant general.

“The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant in War and Peace” is H.W. Brands’s biography of the eighteenth president. Brands is a professor at the University of Texas and a prolific author. He has written nearly thirty books on a wide range of historical topics including biographies of Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt and Aaron Burr. A masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. A masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history Map on endpapers Includes bibliographical references (p. []) and index Proud walls -- The rage of Achilles -- And give the peace.