num_pages: 592
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885).Author Biography: William S. McFeely is the author of Yankee Stepfather, Frederick Douglass, Sapelo's People, and, most recently, Proximity to Death. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
language: English
title: Grant: A Biography
titlecomplete: Grant: A Biography
characters: Ulysses S. Grant
genres: History, Presidents, American History, War, Biography Memoir, American Civil War, Politics, Civil War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1778
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardback) & (Paperback) (1983), awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Fletcher Pratt Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company