Ulysses S. Grant Ironically, Ulysses Term Paper

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Grant supporter, George Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly, once wrote to a friend, "I think the warmest friends of Grant feel that he has failed terribly as President, but not from want of honesty or desire, but from want of tact and great ignorance...It is a political position and he knows nothing of politics and rather despises them" (Goode)..

After he left office, Grant and Julia settled in New York. Grant soon went bankrupt after investing in a Wall Street firm co-owned by his son Buck. To support his family, he began writing magazine articles, and eventually negotiated a book contract with his friend Mark Twain's company (Ulysses).

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His memoirs, published in a two-volume set, sold 300,000 copies and became a classic work of American literature, however sadly Grant never saw the profits, for he died just two months after the book went to press, on July 23, 1885 (Ulysses). Fire bells rang in towns throughout the country and church bells tolled every 30 seconds for 31 minutes, 63 soundings for his 63 years (Goode). It was for Grant the soldier that they tolled. Historian Donald L. Miller notes, "You've got to remember this...Grant, not Lincoln, is the most popular man in the nineteenth century" (Lasner).

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