Grant
by Ron Chernow
Chernow restores Ulysses S. Grant: the failed farmer and clerk who became the general who won the Civil War and the president who fought the Klan, undone later by trusting the wrong men and recovering through the memoir he wrote while dying. It is a study in quiet persistence and in the limits of loyalty.
Read it if…
you want a biography about persistence, underestimation and second acts.
Skip it if…
you want a short life; it is nine hundred pages.
Three things you will actually use
- Persistence outlasts brilliance.
- Being underestimated is an advantage you can use.
- Loyalty without judgement is a liability.
Do this first
Read the pre-war chapters to see how low the floor was before the rise.
Our verdict
Quiet persistence, nine hundred pages.
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