Great post. I actually knew all but one of these things about Grant, yet I've never read a book on him. The one fact, that I had previously overlooked, which jumps out at me here as on the wikipedia entry is that – so obvious it's painful – Mark Twain wrote Grants Memoirs. If you don't believe me, just re-read your post!
Chernow addresses that and discards it as a pure conspiracy theory. If we have the original draft as the below source says that's decent evidence Grant did the writing.
Great post. I actually knew all but one of these things about Grant, yet I've never read a book on him. The one fact, that I had previously overlooked, which jumps out at me here as on the wikipedia entry is that – so obvious it's painful – Mark Twain wrote Grants Memoirs. If you don't believe me, just re-read your post!
Cheers!
–Joel
Chernow addresses that and discards it as a pure conspiracy theory. If we have the original draft as the below source says that's decent evidence Grant did the writing.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/how-mark-twain-helped-ulysses-s-grant-write-his-personal-memoirs.htm