This special publication features full-cloth binding, acid-free paper, and a unique design with specifications differing from those of Library of America series titles. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton-the inspiration for the Broadway musical-won the American History Book Prize.
Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of seven books-including, most recently, the national best seller Grant-and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. Born near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on January 23, 1794, Jesse learned the hard lessons of poverty as a boy. A man so reserved in public needed a private outlet for his feelings, and his correspondence with Julia was the ideal repository for these confessions.” Ulysses Grant's father Jesse could pinch a penny as well as any man alive. As Chernow writes, these letters “candidly portray Grant’s emotional state, showing his remarkable evolution from an insecure young soldier to a capable, self-confident general.
Presented with an introduction by acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow, My Dearest Julia collects eighty-four of these letters, recording Grant’s first experiences under fire in Mexico, the aching homesickness that led him to resign from the peacetime army, and his rapid rise to high command during the Civil War. Sign in to check out Check out as guest Add. Grant’s brilliant Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Julia Dent Grant, Wife of Ulysses Grant, 1800s Portrait, New Reproduction Photo.
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