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Ron Chernow, author of Grant

Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.

Week of September 24, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of September 24th include GRANT, Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow's sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant; ENDURANCE, a stunning, personal memoir from astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station; A DEATH IN LIVE OAK by James Grippando, in which defense attorney Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged in Florida’s first racial terror lynching in more than a half century; and JERUSALEM, an epic novel from Alan Moore, who channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK.