Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Audiobook by Ulysses S. Grant

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/30/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Author: Ulysses S. Grant Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Length: 29 hrs and 37 mins Language: English Release date: 11-17-10 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 440 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures Publisher's Summary: Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grants is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage as he reflects on the fortunes that shaped his life and his character. Written under excruciating circumstancesGrant was dying of throat cancerand encouraged and edited from its very inception by Mark Twain, it is a triumph of the art of autobiography. Grant was sick and broke when he began work on his memoirs. Driven by financial worries and a desire to provide for his wife, he wrote diligently during a year of deteriorating health. He vowed he would finish the work before he died, and one week after its completion, he lay dead at the age of 63. Publication of the memoirs came at a time when the public was being treated to a spate of wartime reminiscences, many of them defensive in nature, seeking to refight battles or attack old enemies. Grants penetrating and stately work reveals a nobility of spirit and an innate grasp of the important fact, which he rarely displayed in private life. He writes in his preface that he took up the task with a sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to anyone, whether on the National or the Confederate side. Critic Reviews: The best [memoirs] of any generals since Caesar. (Mark Twain) One of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature. (William McFeeley, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Ulysses S. Grant)