The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant pre CHILD HUMOUR/POETRY at turns comic

at turns comic

Jolene sees the huge boxes of stuff her new neighbors got delivered

taut prose

and a glimpse into a truly uncommon mind

The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant pre CHILD HUMOUR/POETRY at turns comicOne hundred and thirty three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table. Whether