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Personal Memoirs (Penguin Classics) by Ulysses S. Grant

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By Ulysses S. Grant

"One of the main unflinching reviews of warfare in our literature."  --William McFeeley

Among the autobiographies of serious army figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is unquestionably one of many most interesting, and it's arguably the main amazing literary success of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally sincere chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in conflict to the grinding poverty from which the Civil struggle satirically "rescued" him, those memoirs are a enthralling, deeply relocating account of an excellent guy, advised with nice braveness as he displays at the fortunes that formed his lifestyles and his personality. Written less than excruciating situations (as furnish used to be death of throat cancer), inspired and edited from its very inception through Mark Twain, it's a triumph of the paintings of autobiography.
      
The books within the glossy Library conflict sequence were selected by means of sequence editor Caleb Carr in response to the importance in their subject material, their contribution to the sector of army heritage, and their literary benefit.

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It doesn’t matter if you have rocks in your head. Before I was even in the house, the tears started down my cheeks. I got up to our room as fast as I could. Thank goodness Mom wasn’t here, so I could cry. I guess I am more fond of Johnny Vecchio than I realized. qxd 4/17/00 1:04 PM Page 41 DECEMBER 21, 1941 Dear Diary, I brought up my shoe and belt problem with Mom today. She said I couldn’t get new penny loafers this Christmas because we had to live on peanuts now. Any extra money we have, she wants us to contribute to the Red Cross War Fund.

O’Malley’s New York Times. qxd 4/17/00 1:04 PM Page 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 S 23 R Christmas dance sponsored by the women’s auxiliary, I wrote out parts of the speech President Roosevelt gave to Congress on Monday: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan . . No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory .

Roosevelt said. I want desperately to rise to her challenge. I feel like saying my prayers to Mrs. Roosevelt tonight, instead of to God. DECEMBER 9, 1941 Dear Diary, I copied down more information for the class today from Mr. O’Malley’s New York Times. qxd 4/17/00 1:04 PM Page 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 S 23 R Christmas dance sponsored by the women’s auxiliary, I wrote out parts of the speech President Roosevelt gave to Congress on Monday: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan .

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