RaveThe Wall Street JournalAs readers of Mr. Chernow’s best-selling lives of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and others know, he is a compelling storyteller. Much of the story he sets out to tell here may by now seem familiar, but he adds rich detail and brings to vivid life the reticent, unprepossessing but resolute man whom Walt Whitman called 'nothing heroic . . . and yet the greatest hero' ... As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., and elsewhere attest, the bizarre nostalgia for the Confederacy that so angered Grant stubbornly endures, and, sadly, 132 years after his death, we’re still not where he hoped we’d be.
Paul Theroux
PanThe New York Times Book ReviewThe result is a leisurely, even languid book, reiterative and sometimes simply forgetful.