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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant

(Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant( )
Editor: Simon, John Y.
Foreword by: Catton, Bruce
Marszalek, John F.
Williams, Frank J.
Preface by: Sanfilippo, Pamela K.
ISBN:978-0-8093-1443-0
Publication Date:Apr 1988
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $39.00
Book Description:

Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant's wife. This forty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword, a new preface, recommendations for further reading, and photographs.

Book Details
Pages:376
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 4.064 cm
Book Weight:0.468 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Civil War scholar John Y. Simon was born in Highland Park, Illinois on June 25, 1933. He received a B. A. from Swarthmore College and an M. A. and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He taught at Ohio State University before becoming a member of the Southern Illinois University history department in 1964. During his 34 years there, he taught courses on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the history of Illinois.

He also wrote and edited numerous books about Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War. Beginning in 1962, he started editing the papers of Ulysses S. Grant, which comprised of thousands of documents and annotations, and set a new standard for the organization of historical documents. In 2004, he received a Lincoln Prize for his work. He was nearing completion of this project when he died on July 8, 2008.

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