Grant biography chernow review

Ron Chernow’s &#;Grant&#; was published in to almost immediate acclaim and was named a Top 10 Book of the Year by The New York Times. Chernow is bestselling the author of “Alexander Hamilton,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Washington: A Life” and award-winning biographies of John D.

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With a narrative spanning pages (not counting the extensive bibliography or 4, end notes), this biography of Ulysses S. Grant is by far the longest of the eight books on the 18th president I&#;ve read &#; and it might well be the most engrossing.

Magisterial and exceptionally thorough, this is the most recent biography seeking to re-evaluate and rehabilitate Grant&#;s reputation following William McFeely&#;s comparatively critical Putlizer Prize-winning assessment of the general-turned-politician.

And although Ronald White&#;s “American Ulysses” beat this biography to market by a year, Cher