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A review by bupdaddy
Grant by Ron Chernow
5.0
A complex and compelling portrait of a complex, compelling man.
I think it speaks volumes that when, at the end of his life, news of his cancer became known, Jefferson Davis sent him a telegram. After he died, Union generals William Sherman and Phillip Sheridan were honorary pallbearers, but so were Confederate generals Joseph Johnston and Simon Bolivar Buckner. The funeral procession included both Union and Confederate units.
His flaw was probably being too good for this world. He simply was unable to grasp that most people were not as honorable as him, and his personal fortunes and his presidency were crippled by his being a mark, a magnet - for unscrupulous people.
I hope Lin Manuel Miranda makes his next project a Greek tragedy, hip-hop stage production of this most American story.
I think it speaks volumes that when, at the end of his life, news of his cancer became known, Jefferson Davis sent him a telegram. After he died, Union generals William Sherman and Phillip Sheridan were honorary pallbearers, but so were Confederate generals Joseph Johnston and Simon Bolivar Buckner. The funeral procession included both Union and Confederate units.
His flaw was probably being too good for this world. He simply was unable to grasp that most people were not as honorable as him, and his personal fortunes and his presidency were crippled by his being a mark, a magnet - for unscrupulous people.
I hope Lin Manuel Miranda makes his next project a Greek tragedy, hip-hop stage production of this most American story.