They had been “fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English. Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. Arriving at a moment when excitable individuals and hysterical mobs are. Grant’s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. Grant, which no reader will wish were shorter than its 1,074 pages. Hamilton tells the story of the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a modern, original way. There sits Ron Chernows biography of Ulysses S. He now interpreted the four-year war as providential, since a shorter war might have ended up preserving slavery. Hamilton is an American musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda that is known for its use of unexpected genres of music like hip-pop, R&B, pop, and soul, as well as casting of non-white actors for historically white figure roles. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.”71 Grant’s comments reflect the militance he had felt as president about protecting black civil rights. Grant as a flawed but just man who, despite his drinking problem, won the Civil War and, though scandals marred his presidency, should be remembered as one of our major chief executives. we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. Ron Chernow’s new biography, Grant (Penguin Press, 2017, 40) upsets a century and half of historiography, illuminating Ulysses S. “In the beginning, yes,” agreed Grant, “but as soon as slavery fired upon the flag . . . “I suppose, however, the Union was the real sentiment, the dominant sentiment,” Bismarck inquired. “Yes,” said Bismarck, “you had to save the Union just as we had to save Germany.” “Not only save the Union, but destroy slavery,” Grant added. “Bismarck commiserated with Grant upon the countless fatalities of the Civil War. About the author Ron Chernow 44 books4,974 followers Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. The 1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 'Eminently readable but thick with import.

Grant by Ron Chernow