{"id":3610,"date":"2016-05-12T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/12\/44-books-on-44-presidents-my-struggle-with-ulysses-grant\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T01:16:19","slug":"44-books-on-44-presidents-my-struggle-with-ulysses-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/12\/44-books-on-44-presidents-my-struggle-with-ulysses-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"44 Books on 44 Presidents: My struggle with Ulysses Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bce8d9f7175245c3a97207e594333335\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzEyL2U3L2JjZThkOWY3MTc1LmZkMWJiLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/160969d9\/849\/bce8d9f7175245c3a97207e594333335.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=44+Books+on+44+Presidents%3A+My+struggle+with+Ulysses+Grant&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F11%2Fus-grant%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F11%2Fus-grant%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the eighteenth entry in the writer&#8217;s year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus&#8217; progress at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/44in52\" target=\"_blank\">@44in52<\/a> Twitter account and with this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ekPO5hQQbunVqUz1c5nDcF9MOGIOyaQ08YwKmUc2FiE\/edit#gid=0\">44 in 52 Spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The more you read about the Civil War, the more it becomes clear that the conflict raged for far longer than anyone expected.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">After plowing through Jean Edward Smith&#8217;s biography\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grant-Jean-Edward-Smith-ebook\/dp\/B000FC0PCQ?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;ref_=tmm_kin_swatch_0&amp;sr=\">Grant<\/a><\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, I know the feeling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/02\/44in52-andrew-johnson\/\">44 books on 44 presidents: The impeachment of a Jerk-in-Chief<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">At 600 pages, this tale of Ulysses S. Grant isn&#8217;t the longest book in my project thus far \u2014 the Washington, Adams and Lincoln biographies had more pages \u2014 but it sure <i>felt<\/i> like the longest.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/11\/us-grant\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/44-in-52\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">44 In 52<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/books\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mashreads\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mashreads<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/L-cHKuo-I5I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the eighteenth entry in the writer&#8217;s year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus&#8217; progress at the @44in52 Twitter account and with this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/12\/44-books-on-44-presidents-my-struggle-with-ulysses-grant\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2814,756,739,2815],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-44-in-52","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-mashreads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}