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The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Part 3
Wilderness Campaign, Appomattox, Death of Lincoln (Unabr.)
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Peter Johnson
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9 hrs
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Biographies & Memoirs,
Celebrities
Summary
In his own captivating words, General Ulysses S. Grant describes the Wilderness Campaign, the almost anti-climactic surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. His depiction of the most crucial and hardest-fought battles of the Civil War, the near-disasters, and the bloody triumphs reveals a highly intelligent, profound, thinking man. Grant wrote his memoirs as he lay dying of cancer and completed the manuscript only a week before his death.
Public Domain (P)1999 Recorded Books, LLC
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"The best [memoirs] of any general's since Caesar." (Mark Twain, publisher of
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant)
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- B. Weaver
- 24-01-19
Excellent Reading of One of the Most Important Books in US History
Peter Johnson’s Reading of The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is second to none. Truthfully, my only complaints are that it was divided into three parts, each requiring a separate purchase when it could easily have been condensed to a single work (even the original printed book was published in only two volumes) and that the recording is divided into “chapters” (more correctly “tracks”) based apparently on length, as they do not correspond at all to the actual chapters as Grant wrote them. Otherwise, it is thoroughly enjoyable.