

Samuel Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain, served as his editor. He needed the money to try to secure an economically stable future for his family. Grant, Union hero of the American Civil War, agreed to publish his memoirs.

Politics did not enter into the matter at all.”Īn ineffectual, if not disastrous, president, ruined by bankruptcy after being defrauded of his estate, and dying of throat cancer, Ulysses S. They came from individual citizens of all nationalieties from all denominations - the Protestant, the Catholic, and the Jew and from the various societies of the land - scientific, educational, religious, or otherwise. “‘Let us have peace.’ The expressions of these kindly feelings were not restricted to a section of the country, nor to a division of the people.
