Grant's memoirs first edition6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() He immediately offered to more than double it if Grant signed with his publishing house instead. Twain read over the contract and was appalled by the proposed ten percent royalty. Grant’s longtime friend Mark Twain caught wind of the pending deal and paid Grant a visit on the day he was officially to commit to the Century Company. Bankrupt with months left to live, he was approached by the Century Company’s senior editor with an offer to publish his memoirs. That same spring Grant was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Unbeknownst to the financially naive Grants, Ward turned the firm into an elaborate Ponzi-style scheme by the spring of 1884 the business had collapsed, leaving Grant publicly humiliated and in serious debt. ![]() Upon his return to New York he started the brokerage firm Grant and Ward with his son Buck and business associate Ferdinand Ward. Grant embarked on a savings-draining two-and-a-half-year tour around the world with his family. ![]() The events leading up to and surrounding its publication were equally dramatic, forming a worthy tale in its own right.Īfter two terms as president a restless Ulysses S. Grant, a narrative that summarizes Grant’s life as a series of extreme swings in fortune from failed farmer to Commanding General of the Union Army. Special Collections owns two first edition copies of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. ![]()
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