From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge bestseller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

H.W. Brands

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; and have been bought and sold by billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown.\nNow Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry, her family never saw any of the profits. As Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.\nAn unabridged recording on 10 CDs (12 hours, 31 minutes).\nIncludes an interview with the author.

Medical Books

Rebecca Skloot (Author), Cassandra Campbell and Bahni Turpin (Narrator)

Research

The Tiger - A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Unabridged Audio CDs)

Science & Math

John Vallant

Biological Sciences

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Business & Money

Shawn Achor

Management & Leadership

Once Upon a Secret (Lib)(CD)

Biographies & Memoirs

Mimi Alford

Community & Culture

Power of Habit, the (Lib)(CD)

Literature & Fiction

CHARLES DUHIGG

Literary

What the Eyes Don't See

Politics & Social Sciences

Mona Hanna-Attisha

Sociology

A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

History

Green Hills of Africa

'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going to the left on a run, a strange, heavy-shouldered, foot-swinging cat run. I hit him with the Springfield and he went down...' Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. In some of the most vivid, intense and evocative travel writing, and memoir of his career, he describes the vastness of Africa and the brutality of its 'sports', showing even in this slim volume why he was one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

Hemingway, Ernest

United States

Brunelleschi's Dome (Lib)(CD)

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Ross King

Architecture

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