The general and Julia : a novel

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 a loving father to four children. In this gorgeously rendered and moving book, Grant rises from the page in all his contradictions and foibles, his failures and triumphs. Moving from bloodstained battlefields to Gilded Age New York, The General and Julie explores how Grant's views on race and Reconstruction changed over time. Another extraordinary work from historical fiction master Jon Clinch, this evocative novel breaths fresh life into an American icon and shows that Grant's story is deeply relevant to the world we live in today.

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