U.S. Grant : American hero, American myth
(2013, original release: 2009)
By:
Waugh, Joan
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/GRANT,U
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill : University Of North Carolina Press, [2013]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781469609904, 1469609908, 9781469609904
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Youth -- The magnanimous general -- A great soldier might be a baby politician -- The most famous living American -- Historian of the Union cause -- Pageantry of woe: the funeral of U.S. Grant -- The nation's greatest hero should rest in the nation's greatest city -- Who's [really] buried in Grant's tomb?
Most Americans today are unaware of how revered Grant was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself