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Here on offer is a very nice copy of Ulysses S. Grant's best-selling autobiography Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant , chronicling more than forty years of his life: from his boyhood to his graduation from West Point in 1843, his prominent military career from the Mexican-American War through the Civil War, and finally his accomplished two-term presidency of the United States. This is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Charles Webster & Co. in 1885-1886, half-bound in leather with gold government seals inlaid to the boards. There is no dust jacket with this copy. ******************************************************************************************************************* "Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as 'the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar,' this is the now-legendary autobiography of ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1822-1885), 18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate observations on the conduct of the Civil War, which make up the bulk of the work, that have made this required reading for history students, military strategists, and Civil War buffs alike. . . ." //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1843. He served with distinction in the Mexican–American War, but resigned from the army in 1854 and returned to civilian life impoverished. In 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, Grant joined the Union Army and rose to prominence after securing victories in the western theater. . . . In 1866, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army. Later, Grant broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies. A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and then elected president in 1868. As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, supported congressional Reconstruction and the Fifteenth Amendment, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. Under Grant, the Union was completely restored. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed a bill to create the United States Department of Justice and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission, advancing the civil service more than any prior president. Grant was re-elected in the 1872 presidential election, but was inundated by executive scandals during his second term. . . . Leaving office in 1877, Grant undertook a world tour, becoming the first president to circumnavigate the world. In 1880, he was unsuccessful in obtaining the Republican nomination for a third term. In 1885, impoverished and dying of throat cancer, Grant wrote his memoirs, covering his life through the Civil War, which were posthumously published and became a major critical and financial success. At his death, Grant was the most popular American and was memorialized as a symbol of national unity. . . . The above text was taken from, respectively, Cosimo Classic (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. United States: Cosimo Classics, 2006.]