“When Ron and others come here, they see things they’ve never seen anywhere else. “Starting in 1962, the Grant Association started collecting every known letter of Grant’s and, suddenly, we have in front of us some real information about Grant that’s never been available before,” Marszalek said. Grant Association executive director and managing editor, said the resurgence in Grant scholarship is due in part to the completion of The Papers of Ulysses S. Marszalek, MSU Giles distinguished professor emeritus of history and Ulysses S.
“I especially profited from the numerous oral histories, profiles, newspaper interviews, letters, and diaries that conjure up Grant with extraordinary vividness.”Ĭhernow’s Grant biography is among many recent major publications on the Civil War general and two-term president. “In addition to the fifty thousand documents from the published papers, the library contains another two hundred thousand documents that never made it into print-a scholarly feast for anyone remotely curious about Grant,” Chernow wrote in the acknowledgments section of his new book. Grant Presidential Library at MSU’s Mitchell Memorial Library for their assistance with the 1,104-page biography. In the new book, “Grant,” released this week to widespread critical acclaim, Chernow thanks the staff of the Ulysses S. Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Hamilton,” spent four weeks at Mississippi State University researching for his latest book, a biography of Ulysses S.
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