Personal Memoirs (Penguin Classics)

The indomitable Ulysses S. Grant, perhaps the greatest general in the American Civil War and a remarkable president, wrote his memoirs on the brink of ruin, both from throat cancer and investment fraud. But Personal Memoirs connotes nothing of despair or failure - instead, the writings perfectly capture the willful spirit and military genius that won the war for the United States. With notes by scholar James M. McPherson, this Penguin Classics edition ranks with the memoirs of great Americans such as Thoreau and Twain.