The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) and The First Lady as an Author

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UPC:
9780399113864
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
5/12/1975
Release Date:
5/12/1975
Author:
Julia Dent Grant;Ralph G. Newman
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. Mrs. Grant was raised the pampered daughter of a Missouri planter, and she later remembered her girlhood as an idyll that she wished could have lasted.

Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of American history. A dramatic reminiscence recounts the night that Lincoln was assassinated. Mrs. Grant insisted that she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater in favor of returning home. It saved her husbands life: he had also been marked for assassination.

Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husbands death, Mrs. Grant strives to correct the misconceptions she believed were being circulated about him. She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America's greatest heroes.