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message 1: by Steven (new)

Steven | 30 comments I can only find part 3 in Goodreads
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Part Three
But Hoopla has all three parts

Details:
* Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Part One
* Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Narrator: Peter Johnson
* 9781449878931
* Recorded Books, Inc.
* 1988
* Streaming Audiobook
* 4h 56m
* Among the autobiographies of generals and statesmen, these memoirs rank with the greatest. Mark Twain hailed them as "the best of any general's since Caesar." Refreshingly candid and honest, Grant's assessment of his humble beginnings, his rise to fame, and his greatest triumphs and failures has become an American classic.
* Series: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
* URLs: https://arapahoelibraries.bibliocommo...
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/1...


* Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Part Two
* Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Narrator: Peter Johnson
* 9781449878955
* Recorded Books, Inc.
* 1987
* Streaming Audiobook
* 9h 40m
* Part Two: The Vicksburg Campaign General Grant wrote this book while dying of throat cancer. He had been swindled by a dishonest Wall Street Broker, and his trophies and possessions were stripped from him to satisfy the demands of his debtors. Bankrupt, suffering from a terminal illness, and never passing a moment without acute pain, he produced this magnificent monument to his greatness. Those who denigrate Grant as a drunkard, butcher, or bumbling President need to read this book in order to correct these errant assumptions. It is impossible to read this book and not realize that Grant was an inordinately intelligent man and one hell of a writer. Grant's Memoirs are a deserved classic in American literature and are considered the greatest military Memoirs ever penned, exceeding Caesar's Commentaries. Grant wrote as he lived: with clear, concise statements, unembellished with trivialities or frivolities. The only "criticism" readers might have is that Grant bent over backward not to wound the feelings of people in the book. He takes swipes at Joe Hooker and Jeff Davis, but what he left unsaid would have been far more interesting. A compelling and logical reason why Grant was so spare in his comments was that he was involved in a race with death. He didn't know how long he could live and therefore, "cut to the chase."
* Series: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
* URLs: https://arapahoelibraries.bibliocommo...
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/1...

Part 3 does appear to be missing some details like the ISBN13:9781449878948 and Narrator Peter Johnson
* URLs: https://arapahoelibraries.bibliocommo...
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/1...


message 2: by Karin (new)

Karin | 3219 comments *Bumping this old request for fellow librarian*
(I'm currently adding non-English books from September)

Please edit your title of your topic with:
[open since 25/09/22] Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Go to Goodreads (browser on your tablet or desktop, not the app), go to the title of your thread, next to your title is a little (edit). You can click on that.


message 3: by Tawnya (last edited Jan 07, 2024 02:02AM) (new)

Tawnya | 4211 comments Done.

The first book can be found here:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


And the second book can be found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


Also third book that matches the others is
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


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