The remarkable story of how one of Americaâs greatest military heroes became a literary legend.  The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financierâUlysses S. Grantâwas dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked twenty cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grantâs final battleâa race against his own failing health to complete his personal memoirs in an attempt to secure his familyâs financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very meaning of the Civil War itself and how it would be remembered.  In this maelstrom of woe, Grant refused to surrender. Putting pen to paper, the hero of Appomattox embarked on his final campaign: an effort to write his memoirs before he died. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant would cement his place as not only one of Americaâs greatest heroes but also as one of its most sublime literary voices.  Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have recounted Grantâs battlefield exploits as historians at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Mackowski, as an academic, has studied Grantâs literary career. Their familiarity with the former president as a general and as a writer bring Grantâs Last Battle to life with new insight, told with the engaging prose that has become the hallmark of the Emerging Civil War Series. Â
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