White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (2016)

Ronald C. White.
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.
New York: Random House, 2016.

Book Information: Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Ronald C. White, ronaldcwhite.com.
• Ronald C. White (b. 1939), Wikipedia.
• Ronald C. White Jr., C-SPAN.
• Ronald C. White, Jr. A. Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Ronald C. White

• Dr. Ronald White Jr., "American Ulysses," Greater St. Louis Humanities Festival, Missouri Humanities Council, April 2014.
  • Missouri Humanities Council.
• Ronald White, "American Ulysses," White House Historical Association, Decatur House, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 05 October 2016.
  • Event Information, White House Historical Association.
• Ronald White and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with Ronald White," C-SPAN, 06 October 2016.
• Ronald C. White and Daniel R. Weinberg, "A House Divided, Episode 2," Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, 15 October 2016.
  • A House Divided: American Ulysses, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 15 October 2016.
• Ron White and David H. Petraeus, "Leadership, Life, and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant," Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2016.
  • Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California.

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Other Video:

• Gabor Boritt, James M. McPherson, Geoffrey Perret, John Y. Simon, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Edward Smith, "Biographies of Ulysses S. Grant," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, BookTV, C-SPAN, 25 June 2001.
  • Gabor Boritt (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • James M. McPherson (b. 1939), Wikipedia.
  • Geoffrey Perret, Wikipedia.
  • John Y. Simon (1933–2008), Wikipedia.
  • Brooks D. Simpson, Wikipedia.
  • Jean Edward Smith (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
  Books Discussed:
  • The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.
  • Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.
  • Digital Collection, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.
  • Geoffrey Perret. Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President. New York: Random House, 1997.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Brooks D. Simpson. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. Minneapolis: Zenith Press (Quarto Publishing Group), 2014.
    [Google Books, 2000; Google Books, 2014; Amazon.com, 2000; Amazon.com, 2014.]
  • Jean Edward Smith. Grant. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Jean Edward Smith, "Grant," Southern Kentucky Festival of Books, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 April 2002.
  
  Jean Edward Smith, "No Businessman: How President Grant Saved the Economy but Lost His Own Shirt," Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida, 10 February 2013.
  • YouTube version, 10 February 2013.
  • 2013 Whitehall Lecture Series - Presidents of the Gilded Age, Flagler Museum.
  Jean Edward Smith Information:
  • Jean Edward Smith (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
  • Jean Edward Smith, C-SPAN.
  Book Discussed:
  • Jean Edward Smith. Grant. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, "Generalship of Robert E. Lee," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 08 February 2012.
  Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, "Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 10 February 2012.
  • Wayne Hsieh, History Department, United States Naval Academy.
  • Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, C-SPAN.
  • Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh. A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Wikipedia Articles: Lee
  • Robert E. Lee: Civil War (1807–1870).
  • Seven Days Battles, 25 June - 01 July 1862.
  • Second Battle of Bull Run, 28–30 August 1862.
  • Battle of Fredericksburg, 11–15 December 1862.
  • Battle of Chancellorsville, 30 April - 06 May 1863.
  • Battle of Cold Harbor, 31 May - 12 June 1864.
  Wikipedia Articles: Grant
  • Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War (1822–1885).
  • Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War.
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• Ethan S. Rafuse, ""My Earnest Endeavor": Grant Takes Command, 1864," Kansas City Public Library, 13 March 2014.
  • Ethan Rafuse, academia.edu.
  • Ethan S. Rafuse, C-SPAN.
  • Faculty Directory, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
  • U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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• Joan Waugh, "Ulysses S. Grant and the Crisis of Reconstruction," Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, C-SPAN, 19 March 2014.
  • Event Information at the Miller Center with video and audio.
  • Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. Presidents, Miller Center.
  Joan Waugh, "US Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, American History TV, C-SPAN, 20 June 2015.
  • 2015 Civil War Institute Video Gallery, Gettysburg College.
  Joan Waugh Information:
  • Joan Waugh, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Joan Waugh, Wikipedia.
  • Joan Waugh, C-SPAN.
  Book Discussed:
  • Joan Waugh. U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Charles Calhoun, "Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant," U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 04 February 2015.
  • Charles W. Calhoun, Department of History, East Carolina University.
  • Charles W. Calhoun, C-SPAN.
  • Charles W. Calhoun. The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
    [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
  • Charles W. Calhoun. From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan), 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Charles W. Calhoun, editor. The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, Second Edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• H.W. Brands, "American Ulysses: The Journey of General Grant," Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 07 April 2011.
  • Event Information, Hauenstein Center, 07 April 2011.
  H.W. Brands, "The Man Who Saved the Union," Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, BookTV, C-SPAN, 28 October 2012.
  • Texas Book Festival.
  H.W. Brands and Joan Neuberger, "H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant," Not Even Past, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, February 2013.
  • Not Even Past.
  • 15 Minute History.
  • Joan Neuberger, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
  H.W. Brands, "Lincoln and Grant: Achieving the Peace," Institute for Honor 2015, Alumni College, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 21 March 2015.
  • Livestream version.
  • Copy of Brands's talk at YouTube.
  • LiveStream Talks, Alumni College, Washington and Lee University.
  H.W. Brands, "Ulysses S. Grant: The Man Who Saved the Union," Fourth Annual Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, 29 January 2017.
  • Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.
  H.W. Brands Information:
  • Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
  • h. w. brands, hwbrands.com.
  • H. W. Brands (b. 1953), Wikipedia.
  • H. "Bill" W. Brands, C-SPAN.
  Book Discussed:
  • H. W. Brands. The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. New York: Doubleday (Penguin Random House), 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Brooks Simpson, "General Grant and the Continuing Civil War," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, C-SPAN, 18 June 2016.
  • 2016 Civil War Institute Video Gallery, Gettysburg College.
  • Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University.
  • Brooks D. Simpson, Wikipedia.
  • Brooks D. Simpson, C-SPAN.
  • Brooks D. Simpson. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Brooks D. Simpson. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Brooks D. Simpson. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. Minneapolis: Zenith Press (Quarto Publishing Group), 2014.
    [Google Books, 2000; Google Books, 2014; Amazon.com, 2000; Amazon.com, 2014.]
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• Charles Calhoun, John Marszalek, Bjorn Skaptason, "A House Divided, Season 2, Episode 11," Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, 14 October 2017.
  • A House Divided: John Marszalek Grant’s Memoirs & Charles Calhoun The Presidency of U.S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
  • Charles W. Calhoun, Department of History, East Carolina University.
  • John F. Marszalek, Department of History, Mississippi State University.
  • John F. Marszalek (b. 1939), Wikipedia.
  Books Discussed:
  • Charles W. Calhoun. The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
    [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
  • The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Edited by John Marszalek. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
    [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
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Grant's Memoirs, Papers, Presidential Library:

• Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Ulysses S. Grant. Memoirs and Selected Letters. Edited by William S. McFeely and Mary McFeeley. New York: Library of America, 1990.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Edited by John Marszalek. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), "First Inaugural Address," 04 March 1869.
  [Ulysses S. Grant: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1869. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25820.]
• The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.
• Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.
• Digital Collection, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.

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Other Books and Articles:

• Adam Badeau (1831–1895). Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: from April, 1861, to April, 1865. Three Volumes. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868.
  [Archive.org, 1881, Toronto set: vol 1 of 3; vol 2 of 3; vol 3 of 3.]
• Albert D. Richardson (1833-1869). A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1868.
  [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• John Russell Young (1841-1899). Around the World with General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879. Two Volumes. New York: The American News Company, 1879.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, California; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, California; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Getty; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, Getty.]
• Adam Badeau (1831–1895). Grant in Peace. From Appomattox to Mount McGregor. A Personal Memoir. Hartford: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1887.
  [Archive.org, California; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) and Clarence Clough Buel (1850–1933), editors. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Four Volumes. New York: The Century Co., 1887.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection: vol 1 of 4; vol 2 of 4; vol 3 of 4; vol 4 of 4.]
• John G. Nicolay (1832–1901) and John Hay (1838–1905). Abraham Lincoln: A History. In The Century Magazine. Condensed serial version of the book published in ten volumes in 1890, excerpted from The Century illustrated monthly magazine, volumes 33-39, new ser., v. 11-17, Nov. 1886 - Feb. 1890.
  [Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection.]
• John G. Nicolay (1832–1901) and John Hay (1838–1905). Abraham Lincoln: A History. Ten Volumes. New York: The Century Co., 1890.
  [Wikipedia;
  Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Arthur Dixon set: vol 1 of 10; vol 2 of 10; vol 3 of 10; vol 4 of 10; vol 5 of 10; vol 6 of 10; vol 7 of 10; vol 8 of 10; vol 9 of 10; vol 10 of 10.]
• Horace Porter (1837–1921). Campaigning with Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1897.
  [Archive.org, 1907.]
• Hamlin Garland (1860–1940). Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1898. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.
  [Archive.org, 1898, California; Archive.org, 1920, Toronto.]
• J. F. C. Fuller. The Generalship Of Ulysses S. Grant. London: John Murray, 1929. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• J. F. C. Fuller. Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• C. Vann Woodward, "The Lowest Ebb," American Heritage, Volume 8, Issue 3, April 1957.
• William S. McFeely. Grant: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, 1981; Amazon.com, paperback.]
• Peter Cozzens, "Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It," Smithsonian Magazine, November 2016.
  • Peter Cozzens. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ron Chernow. Grant. New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant, Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885).
• Ulysses S. Grant: Commanding General.
• Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War.
• United States presidential election, 1868, Grant versus Seymour.
• Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, March 1869 - March 1877.
• Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration scandals.
• Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration reforms.
• Black Friday (1869) (also called the Gold Ring), a gold market manipulation and panic, 24 September 1869.
• Crédit Mobilier of America scandal, 1872.
• United States presidential election, 1872, Grant versus Greeley.
• Panic of 1873.
• Long Depression, 1873-1879 or 1873-1896, depending on how you measure it.
• United States elections, 1874.
• Whiskey Ring, a scandal exposed in 1875.
  Investigated by Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin Bristow (1832–1896).
  President Grant's private secretary Orville E. Babcock (1835–1884) implicated.
• Trader post scandal, Congressional investigation began February 1876.
  Secretary of War William W. Belknap (1829–1890) implicated.
• Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), U.S. Secretary of State, March 1869 – March 1877.
• Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887).
• John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869).
• Post-presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

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