General Grant National Memorial

This guide to General Grant National Memorial follows Ulysses S. Grant in 1885: the Union general and two-term president, ruined by a business partner's fraud and dying of inoperable throat cancer, racing to finish his Personal Memoirs before he runs out of time. You'll hear how his friend Mark Twain stepped in as publisher and negotiated the terms, and how Grant moved to a borrowed cottage in upstate New York to write in what time remained. The guide follows the manuscript to its finish and to the tomb a grateful nation built for him.