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he is withdrawn and verbally inarticulate, yet he (more…)