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1) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant'slife has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
Author
Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. The Last Full Measure tells the epic story of the events following the Battle of Gettysburg and brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Jeff Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant—complicated, heroic, and deeply troubled men. For Lee and his...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author presents a political biography on the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and his attempts to reunite the Union after a bitter war and near impeachment of his predecessor and maintains that history has unjustly portrayed Grant's term in office as ineffective and corrupt.
4) Grant
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (256 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The dramatized mini-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Through his unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his day, a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street who turned out to have been running
Author
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents volume 18
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
110 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the eighteenth president of the United States, with information on his childhood, family, political career, presidency, and legacy.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 460 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We were as brothers," Sherman said, describing his relationship to Grant, a friendship forged on the battlefield. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, who held four different jobs during the four years before the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled to join the war effort. And taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the personal and political turmoil in the career of the Civil War leader who became the eighteenth President.
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