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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.
On release, the book received universal critical praise. Twain compared the Memoirs to Julius Caesar's autobiographical Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. British cultural critic Matthew Arnold praised both Grant and his book in an 1886 essay. Twain, however, felt Arnold's tone was condescending, and the two authors feuded until Arnold's death in ...
My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former U.S. president Bill Clinton.It was released on June 22, 2004, around three years after Clinton left office. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group and became a bestseller; the book sold in excess of 2.3 million copies.
The Autobiography was the fourth of four memoirs written by Roosevelt, the other three being: This Is My Story (1937), This I Remember (1949), and On My Own (1958). She combined those three into The Autobiography. The book was generally well received by critics, who particularly appreciated how the combined memoirs showed Eleanor's development.
Eleanor wrote This Is My Story in 1936. [2] The book was published in 1937 by Harper & Brothers.The first edition was 365 pages. [3] It was an autobiographical account of Eleanor's life to shortly before Franklin's involvement in Al Smith's campaign for governor of New York in 1924.
The book provides a biography of Harry Truman in chronological fashion from his birth to his rise to U.S. Senator, Vice President, and President.It follows his activities until death, exploring many of the major decisions he made as president, including his decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his meetings and confrontation with Joseph Stalin during the end of World War II ...
The book was the New York Times best-seller for the weeks of December 6, 2020, [3] December 13, 2020, [2] and December 20, 2020, [1] and has been the Publishers Weekly Number One Best Seller Overall for three consecutive weeks. [54] The book's first printing was set for a run of 3.4 million copies in the U.S. and Canada. [13]
An American Life is the 1990 autobiography of former American President Ronald Reagan. Released almost two years after Reagan left office, the book reached number eight on The New York Times Best Seller list. [1] The book was largely ghostwritten by journalist Robert Lindsey. [2] [3]