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Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

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Monday, April 20 through Friday, May 08, 1998. Read by Karl Schmidt.

The former president wrote his memoirs as he was dying of throat cancer, his sole purpose to provide some financial security for his family. The result established him as a giant of American letters. It’s not so much a personal biography as a personal history and statement of character

(Library of America; ISBN-10: 0940450585)

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