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The Social Implications of The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

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In the last years of his life, former general Ulysses S. Grant would likely wake up worrying about the future more often than not. His family was in dire straits financially. Grant himself was suffering from a cancer that would eventually kill him in 1885. Once Grant was gone, however, this cycle of waking up in worry would end—or at least be greatly alleviated—for his family. His memoirs, published posthumously just twenty years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, became a huge hit nationwide. Why did these memoirs succeed? And what does that say about the America Grant left behind?

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Maggie is a student and writer living in the New York City metropolitan area. She is primarily interested in the humanities, and hopes to incorporate knowledge from its many subjects in her writing for The Social Implications series. She is grateful to be sharing her writing with people from all over the world.