Books with title Ulysses S. Grant: Expanding

This biography introduces readers Ulysses S. Grant including his military service in the Mexican and American Civil War and key events from Grant's administration including several scandals, as well as the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Alfred von Lecteur. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 2.9 hours (slow), 2.6 hours (medium), 2.4 hours (fast). Owen Wister, known for The Virginian and other stories of the Old West, also wrote a substantial body of nonfiction literature. Here he profiles perhaps the only U.S. President more commonly associated with another accomplishment: head generalship of the victorious Union forces in the Civil War. Wister begins with the odd fact, "At the age of thirty-nine, Grant was an obscure failure in a provincial town." and goes on to trace one of the most meteoric ascents in military history.

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