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Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. [1] [2] [3]
Analysis of Grant's presidency by some modern scholars, including Grant biographers Jean Edward Smith (2001), H. W. Brands (2012), Ron Chernow (2017), and Charles W. Calhoun (2017), have generally been more positive about Grant's presidency. Encyclopedic presidential summary biographies of Grant rely heavily on secondary sources and tend to ...
By 2010, Brands had written over a dozen books, and SFGate called him "comfortable writing for the general public". [7] The June 15, 2010, edition of Library Journal reported that a new book by Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 , was forthcoming and would be published in October of that year as a hardcover ...
Century paid Grant a flat author's fee of $500 (nearly $16,000 in 2024) per article. The essays were well received by critics and in 1876 the editor of Century Magazine, Robert Underwood Johnson, suggested Grant expand them into a memoir, as William Tecumseh Sherman had recently done to great acclaim. Facing his own mortality and the prospect ...
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William Grant & Sons Ltd is an independent, family-owned Scottish company that distills Scotch whisky and other selected categories of spirits.It was established in 1887 [1] by William Grant, and is run by Grant's descendants as of 2018. [2]
The book—titled Devil May Care—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US. [97] Faulks ignored the timeframe established by Gardner and Benson and instead reverted to that used by Fleming and Amis, basing his novel in the 1960s; [78] he also managed to use a number of the cultural touchstones of the sixties in the ...