TY - BOOK AU - Clinch,Jon TI - The general and Julia: a novel SN - 9781668009789 AV - PS3603.L54 G46 2023 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20231106 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Atria Books KW - Grant, Ulysses S. KW - Grant, Julia Dent, KW - Cancer KW - Fiction KW - Presidents KW - Autobiography KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Présidents KW - Autobiographie KW - Voyages dans le temps KW - fast KW - Time travel KW - United States KW - Health KW - sears KW - Biography KW - Generals KW - Old age KW - Terminally ill KW - History KW - 19th century KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Historical fiction KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - Novels KW - lcgft KW - Romans KW - rvmgf N2 - Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil rights of Black Americans and against the rising Ku Klux Klan, a plain farmer-turned-business magnate who lost everything to a Wall Street swindler, a devoted husband to his wife Julia and loving father to four children. In this gorgeously rendered and moving novel, Grant rises from the page in all of his contradictions and foibles, his failures and triumphs ER -