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The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

H.W. Brands

A masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Grant, ulysses s. (ulysses simpson), 1822-1885 -> BiographyMilitary BiographyAmerican Civil War

Award History

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyMajor2012FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Ulysses Grant93%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Ulysses Grant saved the Union twice—on the battlefield and in the White House—holding the country together at two critical turning points in history.

    Model confidence 71%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    32 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.