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Article: Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865.(Review)
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- Parameters
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- March 22, 2001
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Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Brooks D. Simpson. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 576 pages.
Surprisingly, there are few good modern biographies of Ulysses Grant. Brooks Simpson's military biography of the top Union general--exhaustively researched, carefully organized, and meticulously written--does a good job of filling part of that void. Simpson, who has as good a reputation in the field of Reconstruction politics and presidents as in the Civil War, is working on a second volume covering Grant's postwar life. With the addition of that largely political perspective, we will have an excellent and comprehensive biography of one of the most ...
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...Amy Simpson and Grant Foley are engaged to be married. She is the daughter of Joyce and Ulas Simpson of Wathena, Kan. He is the son of Nancy ... Kan. He is the owner and operator of Grant's Repair. Their wedding is to be at ...
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