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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 01 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Peter Johnson. |
| Summary |
Part Three: The Wilderness Campaign; Surrender at Appomattox Grant's assessments of Lincoln, Sherman, Sheridan and other military leaders are brilliant and engrossing. His style, like the man himself, was inimitable and couldn't be copied. In everyday life, Grant was a very funny man, who liked to listen to jokes and tell them himself. His sense of the absurd was acute. It's no accident that he loved Mark Twain and the two hitched together very well. Twain and Grant shared a similar sense of humor, and Grant's witicisms in the Memoirs are frequent, unexpected and welcome. There are portions where you will literally laugh out loud. Though Grant's Memoirs were written 119 years ago, they remain fresh, vibrant and an intensely good read. I have read them many times in my life and I never weary of the style and language that Grant employed. He was a military genius to be sure, but he was also a writer of supreme gifts, and these gifts shine through on every page of this testament to his greatness. All Americans should read this book and realize what we owe to Grant: he preserved the union with his decisive brilliance. In his honor, we should be eternally grateful. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
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Generals -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Personal narratives.
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Johnson, Peter, 1945- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781449878948 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1449878946 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT13526490 |
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