![]() ![]() Its readers, enemies of cant, include Gore Vidal, who, in one of his brilliant iconoclastic essays, wrote, 'it simply is not possible to read Grant's memoirs without realizing that the author is a man of first-rate intelligence.' The book is one of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature. "Recently in England their appeared a lament that Grant is no longer remembered primarily for his patriotic valor as a soldier: 'It is, perhaps, a sign of our times that we should be asked to admire the greatest nineteenth-century American general for his authorship of a now unread book.' Without bothering to read the sign, it can be said, unequivocally, that this assessment of his writing is wrong the book is read. In his new introduction to a reprinting of Grant's memoirs, William S. ![]() This section of our web site presents Grant's own words written 115 years ago. Little and Company, New York, 1885) include several chapters recounting his experiences during the Mexican War. ![]() Grant (In Two Volumes, 1,231 pages, published by J. ![]() Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Army of Invasion ![]()
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