Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of America, was associated with the military right from his childhood. Early on, he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point. He fought in the Mexican War. He also played a major role as an officer in the Army during the Civil War. It was General Grant who accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in 1865.
Grant was an excellent military man, but he was not that good a politician. Though he won the presidential elections twice, in 1868 and 1872, he was politically naive. Many people in his office took advantage of this. Grant’s tenure saw a lot of dishonest deals. Though he was not involved in any of this, he did nothing to stop them either.
After his tenure, Grant partnered in a financial institution that went bankrupt soon. To pay off his debt and take care of his family, Grant started writing about his life. It was then he realized that he had cancer in the gut. He really did race against death to finish his script. Grant died in 1885, soon after finishing the last page. But his words lived on. His memoir earned nearly 4,50,000 dollars!
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