Ulysses S. Grant
Subtitle: The Unlikely Hero (Eminent Lives)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 5, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780060755218
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs -- Historical -- United States -- Civil War; Biographies & Memoirs -- Leaders & Notable People -- Military -- United States Civil War; Biographies & Memoirs -- Leaders & Notable People -- Presidents & Heads of State; Biographies & Memoirs -- People, A-Z -- ( G ) -- Grant, Ulysses S.; History -- Americas -- United States -- Civil War
First sentence: IN THE SUMMER OF 2003 Ulysses S. Grant made news all across the country that he had, in his lifetime, done so much to reunite: Some of his descendants, a good part of the more serious press, and the Grant Monument Association objected strongly to pop diva Beyonce Knowles, accompanied by a "troupe of barely clad dancers," using his tomb in New York City's Riverside Park as the background for a raucous, "lascivious," nationally televised July Fourth concert.