U. S. Grant
Subtitle: American Hero, American Myth
By: Joan Waugh.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780807833179
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. -- 1822-1885; Grant, Ulysses S. -- 1822-1885 -- Public opinion; Grant, Ulysses S. -- 1822-1885 -- Influence; United States. -- Army -- Biography; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Generals -- United States -- Biography; Collective memory -- United States; Public opinion -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public opinion
Genres: Biography
Description: Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In an insightful blend of biography and cultural history, Joan Waugh traces Grant's shifting national and international reputation, illuminating the role of memory in our understanding of American history. Waugh reveals how Grant became the embodiment of the American nation in the decades after the Civil War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: One
title: Youth
pagenum: 9; label: Two
title: The Magnanimous General
pagenum: 49; label: Three
title: A Great Soldier Might Be a Baby Politician
pagenum: 413; label: Interlude
title: The Most Famous Living American
pagenum: 155; label: Four
title: Historian of the Union Cause
pagenum: 167; label: Five
title: Pageantry of Woe: The Funeral of U. S. Grant
pagenum: 215; label: Six
title: The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City
pagenum: 261; label: Epilogue
title: Who's [Really] Buried in Grant's Tomb?
pagenum: 303; title: Notes
pagenum: 309; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 359; title: Index
pagenum: 361