SEYMOUR MORRIS JR

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SAMUEL J. TILDEN

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"These were the terrible Lions’ Mouths. … these were the throats down which went the anonymous accusation thrust in secretly in the dead of night by an enemy, that doomed many an innocent man to walk the Bridge of Sighs and descend into the dungeon which none entered and hoped to see the sun again."

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DEBUNKING HISTORY

ULYSSES S. GRANT APPRAISAL

May 2, 2012

TO: The American People

FROM: Recommendation Committee of 1868

RE: ULYSSES S. GRANT

DATE: October 7, 1868

“Sam” Grant is a plain, ordinary man… “the typical American,” says his fellow general and good friend William Tecumseh Sherman. Yet he is not easy to comprehend. He is a man of contradictions:

 he is withdrawn and verbally inarticulate, yet he (more…)