A historian specializing in the US Civil War, Mackowsky describes how Ulysses S. Grant, general of the US Army and later president of the US, struggled to complete his memoirs before he died of throat cancer. He also analyzes the text, showing how Grant sought to secure the meaning of the war through his narrative. The topics include the fall, the new disaster of Shiloh, the peach, the winter of discontent, the greatest showman on Earth, crisis and resurrection, the final march, the last days of Ulysses S. Grant, and where Grant rests. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)