friday before the weekend

By Alison Mercer, Nursery World, 11 July 2000

it's going to be hot

General William T. Sherman, an acute if opinionated observer, once  wrote of his friend and commander, Ulysses S. Grant, that“he is a mystery,  and I believe he is a mystery to himself”. Grant’s enigmatic personality has  always presented challenges to biographers. So, too, has the full and  variegated nature of his career. The most successful general of the American  Civil War, Grant also served as commanding general during the tumultuous  first Reconstruction years, and was then elected in 1868 to the presidency  for two consecutive terms - the only president to do so in the...

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