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          The 18th President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.

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        1. Mark Twain did not embellish President Grant's “Memoirs.” He didn't add, change, or delete a single word.
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        4. In the spring of Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs.

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          “One day he put aside his pencil and said there was nothing more to do.” That is how Mark Twain described Ulysses S. Grant finishing, three days before his agonizing death from throat cancer, the autobiography he had spent the last year of his life writing.

          Grant had done it for the money; a swindle had left him destitute. Twain, a friend and admirer, offered generous terms to publish it. But when, on July 20, 1885, Grant placed his pencil atop a bureau in the room in which he worked and slept, what he put to bed as it were, was a two-volume 1,215 page masterpiece.

          He even declined suggestions from his friend Mark Twain about writing his memoirs.

          And when it sprang up, five months later, in the form of  610,000 single volumes costing an average of $4 each, The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant made his widow a very, very rich woman. How America’s greatest 19th author.

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