1: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume One, History, Biography

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ISBN13: 9781598181135
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The memoir has been highly regarded by the public, military historians and literary critics. Grant portrayed himself in the persona of the honorable Western hero, whose strength lies in his honesty and straightforwardness. He candidly depicted his battles against both the Confederates and internal army foes. Twain referred to as the Memoirs a “literary masterpiece.” Given over a century of favorable literary analysis, reviewer Mark Perry states that the Memoirs are “the most significant work” of American non-fiction. “Man proposes and God disposes.” There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Even if ceaselessly urged by friends to write my memoirs I had decided never to take action, nor to write anything for publication. In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to steer clear of doing injustice to anyone, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention steadily where special mention is due. Mark Twain writes: I had been comparing the memoirs with Caesar’s Commentaries… I used to be ready to say in all sincerity, that the same high merits distinguished both books—clarity of remark, directness, simplicity, unpretentiousness, manifest truthfulness, fairness and justice toward friend and foe alike, soldierly candor and frankness and soldierly avoidance of flowery speech. I placed the two books side by side upon the same high level, and I still think that they belonged there.

ISBN13: 9781598181135
Condition: New
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