For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...

A mix-up on his first day at West Point in 1839 bestowed the name Ulysses S. Grant on the young cadet born Hiram Ulysses Grant. The “U.S.” would prove fitting. During the Civil War, troops dubbed him ...

History has given the green light to Grant, a six-part docuseries based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow’s bestselling biography of Ulysses S. Grant. It will be produced by Leonardo ...

TO RESCUE THE REPUBLIC: Ulysses S. Grant, The Fragile Union and the Crisis of 1876. By Brett Bair. Custom House. 400 pages. $28.99. As the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot approaches, ...

Sixteen years after they teamed up on “Catch Me If You Can,” Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg are in early talks to star in and direct a biopic, respectively, about the life of U.S. President ...

This little book will inevitably be compared with Josiah Bunting's similarly short biography of one of the world's greatest military figures (Forecasts, June 14). The marriage of author and subject ...

Why Grant?” William S. McFeely asked rhetorically in the introduction to his 1981 biography of the Union Army general-in-chief and eighteenth President of the United States. Somewhere around 120 Grant ...

"AMERICA'S HARDSCRABBLE GENERAL: ULYSSES S. GRANT FROM FARM BOY TO SHILOH" by Jack Hurst (Southern Illinois University Press, 228 pages, $26). When reports of the capture of Confederate Fort Donelson ...

While Reading Brad Neely’s “You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant,” I kept thinking of Norman O. Brown’s writing about the excremental vision, as employed by Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, and applied to a ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Ulysses S. Grant Association and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University are kicking off a celebration of the 18th president’s bicentennial year with ...