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   Oct 10, 2017 · In a book that is very much of its time, he puts Grant’s attitudes toward racism, anti-Semitism, political corruption and alcoholism front and center, while also homing in on every battle...

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   Grant by Ron Chernow review – booze, slavery and an argument for greatness. The author of the now celebrated Hamilton biography attempts to make a hero of the victorious civil war commander...

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   Is Ron Chernow a good book?

   • Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads •• The New York Times• Newsday Barnes and Noble • Wall Street Journal “Ron Chernow’s biography reminds our 21st-century selves of the distinction between character and personality.” — “Chernow writes definitive biography of Ulysses S. Grant . . .

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   Who is Ron Chernow?

   • Ron Chernow’s “ Grant ” was published in 2017 to almost immediate acclaim and was named a Top 10 Book of the Year by The New York Times. Chernow is bestselling the author of “ Alexander Hamilton ,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “ Washington: A Life ” and award-winning biographies of John D. Rockefeller and the J.P. Morgan and Warburg dynasties.

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   Is Chernow a reliable fan of Grant?

   • Readers will quickly discover that Chernow is no unreliable fan of Grant; his support is full-throated and enthusiastic. In contrast to the man portrayed in McFeely’s 1981 biography, Chernow’s subject frequently receives the benefit of the doubt and occasionally seems super-human.

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   Does Chernow have an instinct for redemption?

   • Chernow has an instinct for redemption. He picks out Grant’s efforts for enslaved people during the war, and for newly enfranchised people afterwards. But individual sobriety and mass emancipation are not moral equivalents. Grant’s personal redemption did not equate to the redemption of the American republic.

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   Jun 14, 2020 · Overall, however, Ron Chernow’s “Grant” ranks with the very best of the single-volume biographies of Ulysses S. Grant. It is engrossing, revealing and could hardly be better (unless, ironically, there was a tad less of it).

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   Oct 10, 2017 · 4.49. 37,517 ratings4,072 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best History & Biography (2017) Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood.

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   Oct 6, 2017 · REVIEW: 'Grant,' by Ron Chernow. Books 449664443. REVIEW: 'Grant,' by Ron Chernow. NONFICTION: U.S. Grant, long dismissed as a brutish general and mediocre president, is...

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   About Grant. The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017. “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic. Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling ...