Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant -- 1885
Completed just five days before succumbing to throat cancer, the former general's memoirs were the first by a President to achieve widespread commercial success, helped in no small part by public interest in his race against the clock to get them finished before his death. Published by Mark Twain, the...
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