Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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... mind for remembrance , but he was unfortu- nately without these qualities . In his confused saga there is a tale of Ulysses falling in the water while fishing and having to swim out and go home in wet clothes . . . and of his love for ...
... mind for remembrance , but he was unfortu- nately without these qualities . In his confused saga there is a tale of Ulysses falling in the water while fishing and having to swim out and go home in wet clothes . . . and of his love for ...
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... mind . He dealt habitually in philosophical generalizations , pleasant to contemplate , but rather remote from the sweat and worry of life . His ideas were the regurgitations of ancient thought , put in precise and elegant form . He ...
... mind . He dealt habitually in philosophical generalizations , pleasant to contemplate , but rather remote from the sweat and worry of life . His ideas were the regurgitations of ancient thought , put in precise and elegant form . He ...
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... mind . He believed in a high tariff , and was so insistent about it that this low - tariff con- vention had to leave all mention of the tariff out of its platform , except to declare in a weak clause that it was a matter to be decided ...
... mind . He believed in a high tariff , and was so insistent about it that this low - tariff con- vention had to leave all mention of the tariff out of its platform , except to declare in a weak clause that it was a matter to be decided ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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