ULYSSES S. GRANT- HIS MEMOIRS REVEALED
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
An in-depth look at President, General, and Diplomat U.S. Grant- whose career has been muddled in controversy- and whose name has been moving up rapidly on the "Best Presidents" list since his memoirs, currently housed at Mississippi State University, have been published by Harvard Press.
In this interview with Editor Louis P. Gallo we discuss Grant's life and legacy- and discover some very interesting facts about Grant that contradict some of the misconceptions about his character and presidency that have taken root through the past years in the public consciousness. You'll also find out why his memoirs were entrusted to Mississippi.....where memories of what Grant did to Vicksburg are still smoldering.
Discussed: Mexican American War-wife Julia-Grant Compared to Lee-Shiloh-Vicksburg-World Tour-Son Fred-Indian Wars-Reconstruction-Presidency
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 heroes, legends, histories and mysteries. |
| 0:33.0 | In the course of researching my stories I often come across Ulysses S Grant and no wonder. |
| 0:39.0 | Soldier, politician, diplomat, and two-term U.S. President, and he was a guy who seemed to be right in the middle of everything. |
| 0:46.0 | And I ended up getting an email from a gentleman named Louis Gallo and this is how it read, |
| 0:52.0 | my name is Louis P. Gallo. |
| 0:54.0 | I've been editor of historical documents |
| 0:57.0 | at the Ulysses S Grant Presidential Library |
| 1:00.0 | at Mississippi State University |
| 1:02.0 | since September of 2014. |
| 1:04.7 | During my time at the US GPL, |
| 1:07.6 | my colleagues and I have published |
| 1:09.0 | the first completely annotated edition |
| 1:11.2 | of Grant's personal memoirs through Harvard University Press. |
| 1:15.2 | The book is sold over 10,000 copies and has won the 2017 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished |
| 1:21.2 | Writing Award in the Journals, Memoirs, and Letters category. |
| 1:25.0 | It also won the Mississippi Library Association's 2018 Mississippi Author Adult Non-Piction Award. |
| 1:32.0 | It's been reviewed by the New York Times, The Wall. Author Adult Non-Piction Award. |
| 1:32.9 | It's been reviewed by the New York Times, |
| 1:34.8 | the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, |
| 1:37.1 | the New York Review of Books, |
| 1:38.7 | Journal of Southern History, and the library journal. |
| 1:42.2 | Famed Grant Biographer Ron Churno even wrote a blurb for the book. |
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