Grant ( serving as President when Sherman ’ s memoirs first appeared ) later remarked that others had told him that Sherman treated Grant unfairly but " when I finished the book, I found I approved every word ; that ... it was a true book, an honorable book, creditable to Sherman, just to his companions — to myself particularly so — just such a book as I expected Sherman would write.

In 1886, after the publication of Grant ’ s memoirs, Sherman produced a " second edition, revised and corrected " of his memoirs with Appleton.

Subsequently, Sherman shifted to the publishing house of Charles L. Webster & Co., the publisher of Grant ’ s memoirs.

Grant said of the battle in his memoirs, " I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made.

However, his conversion to the Republican Party and his cooperation with his old friend, President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as critical comments he wrote in his memoirs about General Lee's wartime performance, made him anathema to many of his former Confederate colleagues.

John Y. Simon, editor of Julia Grant's memoirs, concluded that Longstreet " may have been a groomsman ," and Longstreet biographer Donald Brigman Sanger called the role of best man " uncertain " while noting that neither Grant nor Longstreet mentioned any such role in either of their memoirs.

Grant spent the last weeks of his life there, finishing his memoirs.

This site is the place where Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885 of cancer just after completing his memoirs.

After the war, and in his memoirs, Grant claimed that Sheridan was the very man he wanted for the job.

Grant Duff, the governor of Madras who developed the beach promenade, recalls in his memoirs:

Ulysses S. Grant was also a fan of the wine, which he began drinking while writing his memoirs towards the end of his life.

Grant, despite his professional rivalry following Shiloh, addressed these charges against Buell in his memoirs, writing:

In his memoirs, Grant called this " the worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service.

– The memoirs of Grant H. Moore and Wilma M. Moore, Open Bible missionaries to Guinea, West Africa, beginning in 1952.

He edited Connoisseur Magazine from 1981 to 1991 ; along with his memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects, including art forgeries, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Tutankhamen, and the 12th-century walrus ivory crucifix known as the Bury St. Edmunds Cross.

Based on the memoirs of Anna Rose, which in 1952 WB made into a movie starring Cary Grant about a married couple with two children of their own, who went on to adopt at least two more, the TV series starred Andrew Duggan and Peggy McKay as George and Anna Rose.

Some reviewers, especially those in the British press such as Rachelle Thackray of The Independent and Linda Grant of The Guardian, consider the character of Eve Frame — the antisemitic wife who destroys Ira — to be a barely disguised riposte at Roth's ex-wife, Claire Bloom, for her unflattering memoirs, which portrayed Roth as unable to bottle his vanity and incapable of living in the same household with Bloom's daughter, Anna Steiger.

Grant wrote in his post-war memoirs, " I believed then, and still believe, that Petersburg could have been easily captured at that time.

In his memoirs, written shortly before his death, Grant only mentioned Rawlins twice, and essentially ignored their professional and personal relationship.

Grant initially wrote the film loosely based on his own childhood experiences after a screenwriter recommended he write a screenplay after reading his memoirs of his Withnail and I experiences.

John Pope remarked in his memoirs that Halleck's cautious campaign failed to take full advantage of a glittering array of talented Union officers, including " Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, McPherson, Logan, Buell, Rosecrans and many others I might mention.

Matoub reacted by skipping school ; his memoirs recall: " We had to give up Berber and reject French.

After Louise's death, and after bearing criticism of his war record from other Confederates for decades, Longstreet refuted most of their arguments in his memoirs entitled From Manassas to Appomattox, a labor of five years that was published in 1896.

He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.

In his criticism of fiction, the theatre, and painting he developed ideas concerning the unity of the arts ; he wrote two full-length biographies, two volumes of memoirs of his childhood and a long fragment of autobiography ; 22 novels, including two left unfinished at his death, 112 tales of varying lengths, fifteen plays, and dozens of travel and topical essays.

An amnesty granted for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty allowed Gorky to return to Russia in 1913, where he continued his social criticism, mentored other writers from the common people, and wrote a series of important cultural memoirs, including the first part of his autobiography.

* Dalkey Archive Press, publisher of the Review of Contemporary Fiction and literature, memoirs, and criticism from around the globe.

She spoke five languages fluently, and in addition to writing novels, short stories, memoirs, and educational works, she forayed into literary criticism and translation.

In particular, criticism has centered some of the contradictory claims in the Bonnet memoirs.

Although Schofield's memoirs do not mention Thomas's role in the board, his persistent criticism of Thomas's generalship after the war may have been provoked by this incident.

While Lenin's criticism of Stalin is well known from the Lenin's Testament, Mikoyan's memoirs are the only source mentioning Rudzutaks as the possible replacement for Stalin.

There was also severe criticism from senior Soviet representatives who blamed front commanders for poor management of forces, their inability to stage offensives and for their armchair generalship, as Vasilevsky points out in his memoirs.

Frederic Prokosch ( May 17, 1906 – June 2, 1989 ) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism.

It has been suggested that Edmonds ' favourable portrayal of Haig was a counterpoint to the scathing criticism delivered by former British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George in his memoirs.

The prize is awarded for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction, which includes, among other forms: personal or journalistic essays, memoirs, commentary, both social and political criticism, history, and biography.

His most famous nonfiction works are the memoirs A Cab at the Door ( 1968 ) and Midnight Oil ( 1971 ), and his many collections of essays on literary biography and criticism.

He also wrote memoirs of the 1930s, and reviews and literary criticism, the latter mainly via his employment with The Observer newspaper.

When not working on poems, he has turned his hand to reviews, criticism, textbooks, sports journalism, memoirs, biographies, children's stories, and plays.

In addition to being a military chronicle written by a participant of those events, Kvinitadze's memoirs are a political commentary, directing harsh criticism at the Mensheviks, accusing them of undermining the state and alienating the Georgian people with their socialist and internationalist rhetoric, incompetence and failure to defend the country against the anticipated foreign intervention.

Although he wrote war poems, he avoided the graphic edge that characterises the work of Sassoon or Wilfred Owen, and his memoirs of war service, though beautifully written, lack the immediacy of those of Sassoon or Robert Graves.

Berlioz wrote extensively in his memoirs of his trials and tribulations in getting this symphony performed due to supply or lack of capable harpists and harps, especially in Germany.

Smith was scathing in his treatment of Richard in his memoirs, citing Richard's " lack of integrity and courage " in failing to hold to the terms of the Kissinger agreement.

Her own lack of knowledge about birth control ( as stated in her memoirs ) led to her interest in the causes of birth control and abortion.