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Praise for H. W. Brands' The Man Who Saved the Union
"Comprehensive, dramatic, and highly readable . . . H.W. Brands has written an authoritative, action-packed, and well-rounded biography of a very human Ulysses S. Grant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
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