PAUL KAHAN is the author of six books, including Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War, The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance (Westholme 2015), and The Homestead Strike: Labor, Violence, and American Industry. He earned his PhD in history from Temple University.
"Paul Kahan paints a revealing portrait of a man often confounded by the Presidency, but one who shaped it in profound ways. He shrewdly takes us from Reconstruction to America's Centennial, when Ulysses S. Grant strove to enhance rights for African Americans, strengthen the Union, and maintain the peace--all against the tumultuous backdrop of post-Civil War upheaval, westward expansion, Washington scandals, economic strife, and foreign-affair entanglements. The conventional wisdom is that Grant was a brilliant general and, at best, a mediocre president. Paul Kahan's book should change your thinking--his Grant is flawed, yes, but someone who, at his core, believed in and fought for the principles of equality and justice."--Stephen Puleo, author of The Caning: The Assault that Drove America to Civil War
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