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Title: President Grant Reconsidered by Frank J. Scaturro, Frank, J. Scaturro ISBN: 1-56833-132-0 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Revisionism At Its Best
Comment: This is probably the bravest Grant book ever written. Even those biographers favorable to him have a tendency, like so many sheep, to parrot the same old lines about him as the bumbling, inept politician who presided over one of the most corrupt administrations is American history. It does not seem to bother these historians that they are, for the most part, simply repeating partisan attacks that had been made against him by his political enemies for their own questionable (to say the least) reasons.
Frank Scaturro is the first writer I have ever seen to use a fresh approach to the Grant presidency, pointing out not only that the much touted scandals of his term in office were frequently based on weak or exaggerated evidence, but that Grant himself was a strong, enlightened leader who accomplished more than most want to admit. It seems that the victor of Vicksburg and Appomattox was not all that different from the man who occupied the White House, after all.
This book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to hear "the other side of the story" of Grant's oft-belittled political career.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally- A Honest Account of the Grant Presidency!
Comment: During the 50 years following the Civil War, the presidency of U. S. Grant was completely distored in an attempt to diminish the accomplishments of the Grant era (Civil Rights) and to take away some of the luster from the man who saved the Union.
The Democratic party- particullary of the South- stiffled the great civil rights efforts of the Republicans during reconstruction. As time passed, and voting rights and other legislative initatives of the Granta administration were dismembered by the Southern Demacrats, they constantly sought to sully the memory of Grant. One of the keys to that effort was portraying the Grant administration in a bad light in terms of corruption. This was done by distortion history, and the outright falsification of the facts involved in the Grant administration. To a large extent these distortions have not been challanged.
Grant Reconsidered presents the historical record in a straight fowrward manner: The Grant presidency offered tremendous acomplishments- and really offered a bridge from a slave nation to a nation where all men have the same rights. An outstanding book!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that reshapes debate about an underrated presidency
Comment: Readers looking for a history of Grant's presidency will be sorely disappointed. The author assumes that the reader has at least a passing familiarity with previous biographies of Grant and of such events as Reconstruction, the Crédit Mobilier scandal, the Whiskey Ring and the Treaty of Washington. Nevertheless, "President Grant Reconsidered" is an important book that should help reshape debate about these events and rehabilitate the reputation of perhaps the most underrated President in American history.
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Title: Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (Modern Library War) by Geoffrey Perret, Ulysses S. Grant ISBN: 0375752285 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 by Brooks D. Simpson ISBN: 0807819662 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Grant by Jean Edward Smith ISBN: 0684849275 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America) by Ulysses S. Grant, Mary Drake McFeeley, William S. McFeeley, Mary D. McFeely, William S. McFeely ISBN: 0940450585 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (Library of America) by William Tecumseh Sherman, Charles Royster ISBN: 0940450658 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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