Ulysses S. Grant : in the interests of the whole people / Thomas J. Rowland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowland, Thomas J., 1952- author.

Series:

First men, America's presidents.

First Men, America's Presidents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1869-1877.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

History generally has not been kind to Ulysses Grant. For the longest time, even his military reputation had been sullied by the stinging indictments of Lost Cause advocates who enjoyed unquestioned sway over the popular interpretation of Civil War history. The apotheosis of Robert E. Lee's role in the war required the diminishment of Grant's reputation. Fortunately, this impression has been convincingly reversed and Grant is now hailed as the proper savior of the Union. The same reversal cannot be said of interpretations of Ulysses S. Grant, the President. Until recently, Grant has been pillo

Contents:

ULYSSES S. GRANT: IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE; ULYSSES S. GRANT: IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowlegments; Chapter 1: From the Banks of the Ohio to the Rio Grande, 1822-1846; Formative Childhood; West Point on the Hudson; First Assignment; Towards the Nueces; Chapter 2: From the Rio Grande to the Upper Mississippi (1846-1861); Mexican War; From Adversity to Resurrection, 1848-1861; Chapter 3: Galena to Appomattox: Grant's Civil War, 1861-1865; Grant in the Western Theater

Grant in the Eastern Theater (1864-1865)Chapter 4: Appomattox to the White House; A New Order; Congress Intervenes; Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment and Grant's Break with Johnson; Presidential Election of 1868; At the Helm: Launching a New Administration; Chapter 5: Apex to Nadir: Grant Presides over Reconstruction; Reconstruction Cresting; Northern Disaffection; Grant and the Forces of Redemption; Louisiana: A Referendum on Reconstruction; Chapter 6: The Conduct of Foreign Affairs; The British: Alabama Claims and Treaty of Washington; Santo Domingo; Cuba and the Spanish; The Great Powers

The PacificA Retrospective; Chapter 7: Other Affairs of State during the Grant Administrations; Early Gilded Age; Grant and the Gold Ring (1869); Panic of 1873 and Monetary Policy; Resisting Inflationary Measures & the Resumption of Species Act; Taming the West and An Indian Policy; Tarnished Legacy: Scandal, Corruption, and Failure of Reform; Chapter 8: Old Soldiers Fade Away: The Final Years; Exiting the White House; Around the World; Election of 1880; The End Is Nigh; Presidential Retrospective; Selected Bibliography; Magazines and Newspapers; Manuscripts, Published Writings And Memoirs

Government DocumentsBooks, Articles, Pamphlets; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63463-994-4