Ulysses S Grant

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-18-2018
  

  The president who fired a special prosecutor — in 1875

  The president was Ulysses S. Grant.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-16-18
  

  Trump called Ulysses S. Grant an alcoholic. Here’s what historians say about that.

  The story referenced by Trump was probably fake news.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7-5-18
  

  Ron Chernow on the Midterm Elections of 1866

  by Amy Davidson Sorkin

  In 1866, President Andrew Johnson pressured Ulysses S. Grant into joining him in a series of rallies where he aired his vulgarity and racism.

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• SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter
  5-22-18
  

  Historians Debate Which President Leonardo DiCaprio Should Play

  The Oscar winner has Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant biopics lined up, and scholars are using everything from 'Hamilton' to toxic masculinity to make their pitches to the actor.

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• 6/10/18
  

  The GOP President Historians Say They Like More and More

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  It’s U.S. Grant.

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• SOURCE: StarTribune
  11-16-17
  

  New Ulysses Grant presidential library at home in the South

  Mississippi State University will launch the new library and exhibit space housing Grant's papers and artifacts on Nov. 30.

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• 10-20-17
  

  Review of Ron Chernow’s "Grant"

  by John Reeves

  Chernow has now provided us with a compelling explanation of why Grant was indeed the first soldier of the Civil War, though there’s always the matter of the sacrifice of all those lives lost in battle.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-9-16
  

  David Petraeus says of all the people profiled in obits in the NYT he’d want to have dinner with U.S. Grant

  "In my view, Grant stands alone among American military leaders as hugely impressive at all three levels of war:"