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A LIFE AT BREAKNECK SPEED

he 2017 publication of Ron Chernow’s prize-winning tome , helped to revive interest in Ulysses S. Grant, arguably the Union’s most important general and this country’s 18th president, whose character had long been marred by innuendo. The History Channel’s three-part miniseries of the same name, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and based on Chernow’s book, seeks to do the

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