It’s only natural that the man who presided over much of Reconstruction would be reassessed, too. In the second half of the 20 th century, historians reassessed long-held views on Reconstruction in light of changing views toward race and an increasing interest in black history. And the Grant boom has extended beyond history, with three recent novels about Grant and even a management book, Cigars, Whiskey & Winning: Leadership Lessons From General Ulysses S. Later this year, William McFeely’s more critical Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 Grant biography will be reissued. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 (the first volume of a two-volume work), and most recently Jean Edward Smith’s Grant, which came out in paperback last month. Several admiring biographies have come out in recent years, including Geoffrey Perret’s Ulysses S. A couple of years later that student, Frank Scaturro, published a defense of Grant’s 1869-to-1877 presidency, President Grant Reconsidered, and Grant’s acclaimed Personal Memoirs were republished in a new edition. In 1997, the National Park Service, prodded by a Columbia University undergraduate with a preternatural interest in reviving Grant’s presidential reputation, rededicated Grant’s tomb in Manhattan after years of neglect. The 18 th presidency, once thought of as a failure on the scale of Warren G. The nation is in the midst of an astonishing Grant boom, culminating in a two-part PBS American Experience documentary that concludes Sunday. President Grant has no need for McCullough, though.
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