Grant A Biography

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country."--C. Vann Woodward, "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography."--Justin Kaplan,

"A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books

"Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic

"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."--Marcus Cunliffe, Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

William S. McFeely, the Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Grant. He lives in Wellfleet and Cambridge, Massachusetts.