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Author Waugh, Joan.

Title U.S. Grant : American hero, American myth / Joan Waugh.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO GRANT    Check Shelf
Description 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series Civil War America.
Civil War America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The magnanimous general -- A great soldier might be a baby politician -- The most famous living American -- Historian of the union cause -- Pageantry of woe: the funeral of U.S. Grant -- The nation's greatest hero should rest in the nation's greatest city -- Who's [really] buried in Grant's tomb?
Subject Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Public opinion.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Influence.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Army -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public opinion.
Collective memory -- United States.
Public opinion -- United States.
ISBN 9780807833179 cloth alkaline paper
0807833177 cloth alkaline paper
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