Ulysses S. Grant
The Unlikely Hero

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

I think this guy talked about other generals almost as much as he talked about Grant, and talked about battle tactics much more than he talked about Grant’s life and character......more