Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend.
She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America\'s greatest heroes..
Grant strives to correct the misconceptions she believed were being circulated about him.
Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husband s death, Mrs.
It saved her husband s life: he had also been marked for assassination.
Grant insisted that she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater in favor of returning home.
Mrs.
A dramatic reminiscence recounts the night that Lincoln was assassinated.
Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of American history.
Grant was raised the pampered daughter of a Missouri planter, and she later remembered her girlhood as an idyll that she wished could have lasted.
Mrs.
Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend
