BOOK PERSONAL MEMOIRS U.S. GRANT (BOX48)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT  (EDITED WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION BY E. B. LONG)

PUBLISHER: THE UNIVERAL LIBRARY  GROSSET AND DUNLAP   NEW YORK  1962

COPYRIGHT: 1952 BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 52-5191

**     AMONG THE HISTORIES OF GENERALS AND WARS, THIS BOOK RANKS WITH THE GREATEST.  WRITTEN WHILE GRANT WAS SLOWLY DYING OF CANCER, IT IS THE FRANK, UNPRETENTIOUS ACCOUNT OF A GREAT BUT SIMPLE MAN WHO CAME OUT OF THE MASSES TO LEAD THE UNION ARMIES IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.  THOSE WHO HAVE THOUGHT GRANT HIGHLY OVER-RATED WILL FIND THAT GRANT THE MAN, AS WELL AS GRANT THE SOLDIER, GROWS ON THE READER AS HE REVEALS IN AN UNCONSCIOUSLY MAGNIFICENT LITERARY STYLE THE SIMPLE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE FROM CHILDHOOD OBSCURITY THROUGH HIS EMERGENCE AS A MILITARY GENUIS.                              E.B. LONG SAYS IN HIS INTRODUCTION THAT GRANT'S STORY IS NEVER DULL, THAT IT IS "THE VIBRANT LIFE STORY OF A MAN, TOLD IN EVERYDAY WORDS.....HERE IS NO PLEA FOR HIS PART, NO EXCUSES--JUST THE FACTS AS HE SEES THEM.....IN THIS DAY OF A NEW SET OF WAR EXPERIENCES, GRANT STILL SHINES OUT AND COMPARES MOST FAVORABLY WITH THE ADMITTEDLY FINE ACCOUNTS OF WORLD WAR TWO."