General Grant and the Rewriting of History

“[A] marvelously bold new book . . . Grant was The Man Who Saved the Union. Varney’s invaluable book helps us understand why we remember him that way” ( Emerging Civil War ).   In 1885, a former president of the United States published one of the most influential books ever written about the Civil War. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant may be superbly written, Frank  P. Varney persuasively argues in General Grant and the Rewriting of History , but is so riddled with fl