TIL that to save his family from destitution, a dying President Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs in just five weeks while in excruciating pain. He died a few days after finishing. His memoirs were a critical and commercial success, earning his wife $450,000 ($13.5m today). Grant turns 200 today!


TIL that to save his family from destitution, a dying President Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs in just five weeks while in excruciating pain. He died a few days after finishing. His memoirs were a critical and commercial success, earning his wife $450,000 ($13.5m today). Grant turns 200 today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Grant CWang April 27, 2022 at 09:03AM

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