Grant

As a general of the Union army and president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced the problems and demands of the American civil war, Reconstruction, the early years of the Gilded Age and the battle for African American rights and freedom. Grant’s reputation in both life and death has been harshly criticised, from rumours of his alcoholism to his cutthroat and abrasive leadership.

In Grant, renowned historian James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a life marked by the extremes of both achievement and tragedy and, in so doing, depicts America during and after its bloody conflict: from the bitter military and political battles over a nation’s future to the long quest for freedom for millions of people who were formerly enslaved.

Grant is a riveting portrait of one of America’s most legendary, capable and flawed leaders.