Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Grant

Release date is 2004-06-01

Produced by Glen Bledsoe. Additional proofing by David Widger

"Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1" by Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography written in 1884-1885. Racing against terminal throat cancer and financial ruin from a Ponzi scheme, the dying president chronicles his military career through the Mexican-American War and Civil War. Mark Twain, recognizing his friend's exploitation by publishers, intervened to secure better terms and orchestrated an unprecedented marketing campaign using Union veterans as door-to-door salesmen. The result became one of the nineteenth century's bestselling books. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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