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Ulysses S. Grant By Josiah Bunting Sparknotes

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Throughout the book, Bunting had a consistent writing style and had some accurate information. His way of writing it is different from most of those who write biographies since he was a former army office of eight years. He viewed U.S. Grant different than other historians who have viewed the former president with bias and prejudice. Bunting’s military background has helped him write the book due to that he can empathise with U.S Grant.
The book has different sections of U.S. Grant’s life in different chapters, short enough to explain vaguely most events and go into depth of a few things. The first five chapters, up to page 70, it is about his early life and military. After that is when it goes into his presidential part of his life. These take the most pages and go into more depth of how he handled things, such as (87), leaders of the Republican party would fret over U.S. Grant’s failure to consult them as to the cabinet and other senior appointments. …show more content…

Grant is known as the 18th president of the United States, as well as being a commanding general that worked closely with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. The book Ulysses S. Grant is written by Josiah Bunting III. Bunting was mesmerized by U.S. Grant for several reasons. Bunting found U.S. Grant to be the necessary American of his time, such as him being a Westerner by birth and him being a person to not explain, but to just do it. He found U.S. Grant to be an independent, inner-directed soul who is always aggressive in adversity, and can be canny or wise at times. Also, Bunting found U.S. Grant to have faced more daunting challenges, with two exceptions, at his inauguration and lastly, the generations of historians, out of bias or prejudice, have condescended U.S. Grant and gotten him

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