Ulysses S. Grant was, writes Geoffrey Perret, the man who taught the army how to fight. Based on extensive research, Perret's biography explains more clearly than ever before how Grant's military genius triumphed as he created a new approach to battle. Woven through Perret's exploration of Grant as soldier and president is the author's portrait of the American hero as a person: Grant's frustrating studies at West Point, his courtship of Julia Dent, his days of poverty, which he spent building a lopsided house he called Hardscrabble, are all as fully presented as Perret's tactical analysis to make a fast-paced, highly readable narrative (James I. Robertson). | Ulysses S. Grant by Geoffrey Perret, Paperback | Indigo Chapters