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After leaving office in 1877, Grant's reputation soared during his well-publicized diplomatic world tour. Accusations of Grant's alleged excessive drinking hounded him for most of his military and political career, and are still widely believed by the general public. Historians generally agree he drank occasionally but not often.
Well, one of the links you offered, the history net, has an article whose title seems a bit pov'ish, i.e."Ulysses S. Grant’s Lifelong Struggle With Alcohol", which more than suggests there was a problem. Most of the sources I've come across acknowledges that there were no bonafide instances of Grant staggering about drunk and disorderly, and ...
"Andy and his prime minister": Lantern slide of U.S. president Andrew Johnson drinking with the devil, painted by abolitionist and folk artist Samuel J. Reader (Liljenquist Collection, LOC) "Andy Drunk and Andy Sober": The use of "Argus I'd" here is a play on words, referring to the Ancient Greek Argus, a monster who was covered with countless eyes, replacing eye with I to suggest Johnson's ...
1 Grant drinking reputation continued. 27 comments. 2 reputation versus reality on drinking. 9 comments. 3 ...
Ulysses S. Grant's standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White ...
More recently, (2017) historian Charles Calhoun and author of "The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant" concludes correspondence between Babcock and his lawyers "leaves little doubt of Babcock's complicity in the Whiskey Ring." [47] Many of Grant's friends who knew him claimed that the President was "a truthful man" and it was "impossible for him to ...
The results of this study compared patterns of alcohol use from 2012-2013 to use in 2001-2002 and found that the rate of alcohol use rose more than 11%; the rate of high-risk drinking increased ...
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War .