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 compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S.
Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life 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 War; or as a
credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst
excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing
adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his