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Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. As president, he brought stability to the country after years of war and upheaval. Yet today Grant is remembered as a brilliant general but a failed president.

In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles these conflicting assessments of Grant's life. He argues...

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996

It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States," as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith "does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed."

Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man....

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Christian Science Monitor - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Magisterial."--The New York Times

In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point and beyond. Drawing on a wealth of untapped primary sources, Smith provides new insight into Ike's maddening...

The story of a lifetime, "A Little Existence" ties both a dangerous and uncompromising story about one's morality and what really matters. Capturing the psychological detail in today's desolate youth and adulthood, the complex writing helps see the reality of modern life. Alex, a seventeen year old boy loses everything and becomes cold with regret. He finds himself trapped between who is he is and what he really wants to be happy. Defining the very values of life through intense narration, and tackling everything from family to friends, he digs into his new life of crime in the town with...