In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was often grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American Leaders." But the 18th U.S president fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to revise our estimates of Grant in the twenty-first.
This important biography of one of America's greatest general and misunderstood presidents recasts our understanding of this iconic historical figure. American Ulysses gives us a finely honed, three dimensional portrait of Grant the man - husband, father, writer, leader - that should set the standard by which all future biographies of him will be measured.
