U.S. Grant [electronic resource] : American hero, American myth / Joan Waugh.
2009
E672 .W38 2009eb
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Title
U.S. Grant [electronic resource] : American hero, American myth / Joan Waugh.
Author
Waugh, Joan.
ISBN
9780807898710 (electronic book)
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (373 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number
E672 .W38 2009eb
Summary
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of Grant's renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents
Youth
The magnanimous general
A great soldier might be a baby politician
The most famous living American
Historian of the Union cause
Pageantry of woe: the funeral of U. S. Grant
The nation's greatest hero should rest in the nation's greatest city
Who's [really] buried in Grant's tomb?
The magnanimous general
A great soldier might be a baby politician
The most famous living American
Historian of the Union cause
Pageantry of woe: the funeral of U. S. Grant
The nation's greatest hero should rest in the nation's greatest city
Who's [really] buried in Grant's tomb?