The story of Memoirs opens 14 months earlier, in May 1884. The history of Memoirs begins at the end of Grant’s life. Contemporaneous advertising and sales materials describing Memoirs have been preserved and are valuable resources. Many of the details about the physical creation of Memoirs can be gleaned from the volumes. Additionally, a physical study of Memoirs will be presented using my copy of Memoirs. It includes the stories of the author, the publisher, the book sellers, and the provenance of my first edition copy of Memoirs. This is an abbreviated study of the history of Memoirs. This blog may be the beginning of that book. Great insight into a very troubled and turbulent era of US history. However, it does not appear that anyone has written the history of Memoirs. Grants book is perhaps the best of any past US President. There was gossip, back biting and a number of lawsuits resulting from the creation of Memoirs. Biographers of Grant and Clemens usually include a chapter in their books about Memoirs. Grant’s wife received the largest royalty check ever written at the time as proceeds of Memoirs.īecause Grant and Clemens were contemporary American heroes, every aspect of Memoirs was covered in the press. He died five months before Volume I of Memoirs was published in 1885. Mark Twain, who acted as his publisher, Grant wrote the most financially successful book of his era.
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