num_pages: 576
description: A detailed and intimate portrait of U. S. Grant from this Pulitzer Prize winning historian reveals why Lincoln knew he was the one general who could win the war. This exhaustively researched biography gives us a new understanding of the man, the growing strength of his character, and the great war itself.
language: English
title: Grant Takes Command
titlecomplete: Grant Takes Command
characters: Ulysses S. Grant
genres: Biography, Military History, History, American History, Leadership, War, American Civil War, Nonfiction, Civil War, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 2154
series: Grant
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Fletcher Pratt Award
publisher: Book of the Month Club/Little, Brown & Co. (Boston)