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Ulysses S. Grant
1885 - Mount McGregor
At Mount McGregor, racing against cancer to finish his memoirs, a general and president faces his final campaign.
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Ulysses S. Grant finishes his Personal Memoirs at Mount McGregor
July 1885 · Mount McGregor, New York
Mount McGregor becomes the place where illness, debt, and national memory are forced into one last act of authorship.
Grant keeps the event human because national memory is rescued here sentence by sentence by a dying man writing for both history and his family.
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Ulysses S. Grant
1885 - Mount McGregor
At Mount McGregor, racing against cancer to finish his memoirs, a general and president faces his final campaign.