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  • Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
  • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
  • Durée: 48 h et 2 min
  • 4,9 out of 5 stars (123 évaluations)

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Grant

Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
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The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017

“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic

Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.

Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant’s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members.

More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him “the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.” After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. 

With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as “nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.” Chernow’s probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary.

Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads • Amazon • The New York Times • Newsday BookPage Barnes and Noble • Wall Street Journal

©2017 Ron Chernow (P)2017 Penguin Audio

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“This is a good time for Ron Chernow’s fine biography of Ulysses S. Grant to appear . . . As history, it is remarkable, full of fascinating details sure to make it interesting both to those with the most cursory knowledge of Grant’s life and to those who have read his memoirs or any of several previous biographies . . . For all its scholarly and literary strengths, this book’s greatest service is to remind us of Grant’s significant achievements at the end of the war and after, which have too long been overlooked and are too important today to be left in the dark . . . As Americans continue the struggle to defend justice and equality in our tumultuous and divisive era, we need to know what Grant did when our country’s very existence hung in the balance. If we still believe in forming a more perfect union, his steady and courageous example is more valuable than ever.”—Bill Clinton, New York Times Book Review 

Grant is vast and panoramic in ways that history buffs will love. Books of its caliber by writers of Chernow’s stature are rare, and this one qualifies as a major event . . . . Chernow is clearly out to find undiscovered nobility in his story, and he succeeds; he also finds uncannily prescient tragedy. There are ways in which Grant’s times eerily resemble our own . . . Indispensable.”—The New York Times

“Chernow tells all this rapidly and well; his talent is suited to Grant’s story . . . He is extraordinarily good on what could be called, unpejoratively, the Higher Gossip of History—he can uncannily detect the actual meaning beneath social interactions . . . Fluent and intelligent.”—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

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A thoroughly moving story

Grant tells the story of a singular personality. His life is the embodiment of overcoming despite nearly impossible challenges. If you are not inspired and moved by this triumph of America’s greatest underdog, you are past feeling.

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Inspiring, Beautiful, Tragic, Enlightening

Perhaps the world’s most underrated general. The allegorical story of U.S. Grant is the story of the egalitarian American. Quite possibly the most underrated U.S. President.

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A triumph

Grant may even surpass Chernow's previous epic on Rockefeller as my favourite biography. It is a tour de force that has completely changed my understanding of one of America's greatest figures. Chernow's masterpiece will no doubt ensure that President Grant is restored to his rightful place amongst America's foremost presidents.

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Interesting, educational, good to know facts...

I loved the narrator, he made it more interesting. The author painted an accurate picture of the political shenanigans of the time...not much changed since...

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Inspiring

What a great man! I very much enjoyed the writing and performance. Worth every minute.

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The narration was excellent the book was mesmerizing. I felt like I rode along with Grant through his early years, the war, his presidency, and afterwards. Grant was genuinely a good and decent man, and rightly deserves his place in history. 10/10

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Fantastic!

This is a l-o-n-g audio book but so intense and interesting! I learned so much about US Grant, both his shortcomings and triumphs!

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what a story, what a life, what a book

it's hard to imagine a better job of telling a life story in it's original and unique time and place, making it timeless and universal, and so current, all at the same time. a truly epic story, well written and well read. with it's length and production quality, it was at 50 hours (at 1.8 x production speed) my favourite "podcast" of the plague year 2021.

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Interesting and listening pleasure.

I totally enjoyed getting to know President Grant through this book. Amazing writing and narrative.

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A long and moving reveal of the life of US Grant

A remarkable historical biography. In a steadily building, clear and well balanced story, Grants humanity is revealed. Inviting, gentle prose reflects and honors this remarkable story and man. A masterpiece

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