Review of “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant” by Ronald C. White

April 4, 2019

Ronald White’s “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant” was published in 2016, two years after I spent eight …

The Best Biographies of Ulysses S. Grant

September 30, 2014

[Updated] Despite the pivotal role he played in the Civil War and the importance of his administration to Reconstruction, I …

August 17, 2014

“Grant: A Biography” is William McFeely’s Pulitzer Prize winning 1981 biography of the Union general and eighteenth president. McFeely is …

August 14, 2014

Having survived the presidency of Andrew Johnson, I’m moving on to six biographies of our eighteenth president, Ulysses S. Grant. …