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Ronald C. White

Biography

Ronald C. White

Ronald C. White is the author and editor of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller A. LINCOLN. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities, organizations and at the White House, and has been interviewed on "PBS NewsHour." He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La Cañada, California.

Ronald C. White

Books by Ronald C. White

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
by Ronald C. White - Biography, History, Nonfiction

In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the 20th century. In AMERICAN ULYSSES, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the 21st. He shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leader --- a willing delegator with a natural gift for managing the rampaging egos of his fellow officers. His wife, Julia Dent Grant, long marginalized in the historic record, emerges in her own right as a spirited and influential partner.