Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, by Ulysses Simpson Grant. Lincoln had gone through a series of unheroic generals before settling on Grant to lead the Union's Army of the Potomac. Grant's success at marshaling the industrial might of the North eventually forced the South into submission. This memoir, finished as its author was dying of throat cancer in 1885, is widely admired for its clear and straightforward prose. (514 pages, 9.25” x 6.13”, Paperback) – Item #172