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Looking for read-alikes for Grant by Ron Chernow? These 24 titles overlap in Presidents & Heads of State, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military, and United States and overall literary texture.

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Grant and Sherman The Friendship That Won the Civil War — Charles Bracelen Flood

Grant and Sherman The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Charles Bracelen Flood

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Lincoln and His Admirals — Craig L. Symonds

Lincoln and His Admirals

Craig L. Symonds

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Complete Annotated Edition — Ulysses S. Grant

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Complete Annotated Edition

Ulysses S. Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Waking Giant America in the Age of Jackson — David S. Reynolds

Waking Giant America in the Age of Jackson

David S. Reynolds

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant — Ulysses Simpson Grant

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

To Rescue the Republic Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 — Bret Baier

To Rescue the Republic Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Chorus of the Union How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation — Edward Robert McClelland

Chorus of the Union How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation

Edward Robert McClelland

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Courage and Country James Shields : More Than Irish Luck — J. Sean Callan

Courage and Country James Shields : More Than Irish Luck

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 1. — Ulysses Simpson Grant

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 1.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History — Jonathan Horn

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words that Remade America — Garry Wills

Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words that Remade America

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant — Ronald C. White

American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Ronald C. White

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Major McKinley William McKinley and the Civil War — William Howard Armstrong

Major McKinley William McKinley and the Civil War

William Howard Armstrong

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

U.S. Grant American Hero, American Myth — Joan Waugh

U.S. Grant American Hero, American Myth

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Autobiography of a General and U. S. President – Both Volumes, with Illustrations and Maps — Ulysses S. Grant

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Autobiography of a General and U. S. President – Both Volumes, with Illustrations and Maps

Ulysses S. Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 — Nelson Lankford

Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861

Nelson Lankford

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Ulysses S. Grant Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 — Brooks Simpson

Ulysses S. Grant Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Lincoln Vs. Davis The War of the Presidents — Nigel Hamilton

Lincoln Vs. Davis The War of the Presidents

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Broken Constitution Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America — Noah Feldman

The Broken Constitution Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace — John Avlon

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Lincoln’s Melancholy How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Lincoln’s Melancholy How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

The Age of Reagan A History, 1974-2008 — Sean Wilentz

The Age of Reagan A History, 1974-2008

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Killing Lincoln The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever — Bill O’Reilly

Killing Lincoln The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever — Bill O’Reilly

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

Lincoln and the Irish The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union — Niall O’Dowd

Lincoln and the Irish The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union — Niall O’Dowd

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Military

If Grant by Ron Chernow is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Presidents & Heads of State, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Charles Bracelen Flood, Craig L. Symonds, Ulysses S. Grant, David S. Reynolds, and others.

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