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At the time of his fatality, Ulysses S. Offer was the most famous person in the us, considered by most residents to be equivalent in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired in the bottom of historical search rankings.
In an insightful blend of biography and ethnic record, Joan Waugh traces Grant's moving nationwide and international reputation, illuminating the role of ram in our knowledge of American record. Using a variety of written and aesthetic sources--newspaper articles, private and general public reminiscences, images, paintings, cartoons, poetry, and far more--Waugh uncovers how Offer became the embodiment of the American region in the decades following the Civil Warfare. She does not paper over Grant's image as a scandal-ridden contributor to the most severe excesses of the Gilded Years. Instead, she catches a feeling of what led nineteenth-century Us citizens to neglect Grant's clear faults and carry him up as a critically important image of nationwide reconciliation and unity. Waugh further implies that Grant's reputation and place in public areas memory carefully parallel the go up and show up of the northern version of the Civil Warfare story--in which the United States was the clear, morally superior victor and Offer was the image of that win. With the 1880s, Waugh shows, following the failing of Reconstruction, the dominant Union common myths about the warfare gave way to a southern version that emphasized a far more sentimental remembrance of the honor and courage of both edges and ennobled the "Lost Cause." In this social change, Grant's general public image evolved as well. With the 1920s, his reputation possessed plummeted.
Most Us citizens today are unaware of how revered Offer was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reason why behind the go up and show up of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating ram of the Civil Warfare itself.
