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Ulysses S. Grant, working on his memoirs in 1885. His Personal Memoirs is considered by historians to be among the best by a U.S. president. Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote ...
Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front: 2009 Ann B. Carl: A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II: 2000 [j] Mitsuo Fuchida: For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor: 2011 Harold Brown: Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee ...
The Memoirs quickly became a best seller. Ulysses S. Grant sought to deliver his moral, political, economic and social argument for waging the war against the South in his Personal Memoirs. As the commander of the Union army and a two-term president, he had a unique perspective on the war that interested both the public and historical scholars ...
Blending history and memoir, research and interviews, La Tray combines separate yet connected personal, family, and community narratives to craft a story of both recovery and loss.
Andre Agassi’s Open is a thrillingly untriumphant sports memoir that isn’t afraid to court controversy.Co-written with J.R. Moehringer, who also helped Prince Harry with Spare as well as his ...
The famous New York Times restaurant critic's memoir of her first 30 years is a smorgasbord of compelling locations—New York in the 1960s, boarding school in Montreal, travels in Tunisia, Crete ...
This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs were like "memos", or pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing, which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on. The Sarashina Nikki is an example of an early Japanese memoir, written in the Heian period.
Sarah the Duchess of York, My Story. Sarah Ferguson has written two juicy memoirs, though it was her first, published in 1996, that really caused a ruckus with the royal family.