The general and Julia : a novel

ISBN: 1668009781
ISBN: 9781668009789
Physical Description: 259 pages ; 24 cm print
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2023.
Copyright: &copy;2023

Summary: Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil rights of Black Americans and against the rising Ku Klux Klan, a plain farmer-turned-business magnate who lost everything to a Wall Street swindler, a devoted husband to his wife Julia and loving father to four children. In this moving novel, Grant rises from the page in all of his contradictions and foibles, his failures and triumphs.