![]() Understanding that sales of the book would restore the Grant family's finances and provide for his widow, Twain created a unique marketing system designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as the famous general's death was being mourned. Twain was a close personal friend of Grant and used all of his famous talent for promotion in selling the books. ![]() ![]() The set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death in July 1885. The volumes were written during the last year of Grant's life, amid increasing pain from terminal throat cancer and against the backdrop of his personal bankruptcy at the hands of an early Ponzi scheme. The work focuses on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. ![]() Grant are two volumes of autobiography by Ulysses S. ![]()
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