Pulitzer Prize nominee H.W. Brands’ latest book,
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, is a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Brands is also the author of Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin.
Thanks Mr. Brands for taking time from your busy schedule to answer a few questions.
Q. Why did you write The Man Who Saved the Union?
A. I wanted to tell the story of how the Union almost fell apart in the
early 1860s and how it was put back together after the Civil War. I also wanted
to tell the story of an important American who came to fame for being a
soldier. Grant fit my needs on both scores.
