Marcus Cunliffe, New York Times Book Review
Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best.


C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books
A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country.


Justin Kaplan, The New Republic
Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography.


Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885).


About the Author
William S. McFeely is the author of Yankee Stepfather, Frederick Douglass, Sapelo's People, and, most recently, Proximity to Death. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885).

Author Biography: William S. McFeely is the author of Yankee Stepfather, Frederick Douglass, Sapelo's People, and, most recently, Proximity to Death. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

FROM THE CRITICS

Marcus Cunliffe - New York Times Book Review

Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best.

Justin Kaplan - The New Republic

Clearsightedness,along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography.

C. Vann Woodward - New York Review of Books