The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) and The First Lady as an Author - Hardcover

Julia Dent Grant; Ralph G. Newman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039911386X ISBN 13: 9780399113864

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975

Synopsis

Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. Mrs. Grant was raised the pampered daughter of a Missouri planter, and she later remembered her girlhood as an idyll that she wished could have lasted.Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of American history. A dramatic reminiscence recounts the night that Lincoln was assassinated. Mrs. Grant insisted that she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater in favor of returning home. It saved her husband€™s life: he had also been marked for assassination.Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husband€™s death, Mrs. Grant strives to correct the misconceptions she believed were being circulated about him. She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America's greatest

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Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of American History. A dramatic reminiscence recounts the night that Lincoln was assassinated. Mrs. Grant insisted that she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater in favor of returning home. It saved her husband's life: he had also been marked for assassination.

About the Author:

John Y. Simon has contributed more than 40 articles to scholarly journals and has written or edited four books in addition to the published volumes of the Grant Papers.

About this edition

• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 039911386X
• ISBN 13: 9780399113864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346
• Editor: John Y. Simon