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Generals Generals United States Biography Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885 Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885 Fiction Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) 1807-1870 Presidents United States Biography Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns United States. Army BiographyPerry, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 PERRumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers Ulysses S. Grant including his military service in the Mexican and American Civil War and key events from Grant's administration including several scandals, as well as the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GRASummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURPerry, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trafe Paperbacks 2004
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Summary: Newt Gingrich, former Congressman and student of Civil War history, has written an astounding book giving us an alternate history of the Civil War. On July 10th, 1863, Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington. Six days earlier, General Ulysses S. Grant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. CHEBordewich, Fergus M.
Summary: "A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BORReeves, John
Summary: In the spring of 1864, President Lincoln feared that he might not be able to save the Union. The Army of the Potomac had performed poorly over the previous two years, and many Northerners were understandably critical of the war effort. Lincoln assumed he'd lose the November election, and he firmly believed a Democratic successor would seek peace immediately, spelling an end to the Union. A Fire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.736 REESummary: Traces Grant's life and career, from his pre-Civil War days as a failed soldier to his last hours, when he raced to finish his memoirs as he was dying of cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ULYShaara, Jeff
Summary: The last year of the Civil War as seen by the two commanding generals, Grant and Lee. The novel is the final volume in a trilogy, begun by the author's father with The Killer Angels. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S.Summary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMEClinch, Jon
Summary: Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CLIGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
Summary: Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Presented with an introduction by acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow, My Dearest Julia collects more than eighty of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. GRAVaron, Elizabeth R.
Summary: "Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind-it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate over precisely what the surrender meant and what kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Profiles the lives of these two great Civil War commanders who came from vastly different backgrounds, exploring their personalities, their characters, their ethical and moral compasses, and their political and military worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 DAVCatton, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 CATBowery, Charles R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 BOWCatton, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1960
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B GRANT CATKorn, Jerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIMReasoner, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REASmith, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1984
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Summary: "From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. BAIBrands, H. W.
Summary: An analysis of Ulysses Grant's pivotal contributions during the Civil War and his presidency covers his defense of black civil rights, his controversial willingness to sacrifice troops to win the war, and the heated criticism over his Reconstruction policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012