

Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Author: Michael Korda
Narrator: Robin Sachs
Abridged: 14 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/16/2010
Author: Michael Korda
Narrator: Robin Sachs
Abridged: 14 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/16/2010
Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York.
National hero though he may be, it turns out it wasn’t all that easy being Ulysses S. Grant. Michael Korda’s brief biography captures the ups and downs of Grant the man, the general and the president in enjoyable and pithy prose. Young Ulysses was quite the animal lover. He had a knack for “horse wh......more
There are quite a few Grant biographies available. Ron Chernow's is likely to be the most pre-eminent, but William McFeely's Grant:A Biography and Ronald White's American Ulysses are also rather well-known among many others and the man wrote a memoir his self, so there's plenty of places to go. I hav......more
I borrowed this book from the library at the same time I borrowed Chernow's version of Grant's biography. Both looked very readable at a glance. I read part of the chapter about Grant's childhood in both books, as well as a couple of other Grant biographies. The only two that agreed with another wer......more
Entertaining, short narrative version of Grant's life, describing most of the usual highlights plus some new stories and interpretations. I'm not sure that it's as accurate as bigger tomes by Grant biographers like Brooks Simpson, Joan Waugh or Ron Chernow, but it's a much quicker read.......more