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Canceled- Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant
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Program takes place in the Figge Auditorium at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.Dates & Times
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We meet Ulysses S. Grant, presented by Pete Grady, in the final year of his life as he is dying of throat cancer (brought on, no doubt, by his habit of smoking twenty cigars a day).
Grant is penniless. His investment firm has gone bankrupt and, as he resigned from the military to serve as President, he has no military pension. Grant has been assured by Samuel L. Clemens (the author “Mark Twain”) that if Grant can complete his autobiography, the book will earn sufficient income to care for Grant’s family after his death.
Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant is Grant’s life story, told by a man who knows he will soon die, but who must complete his story before his death. The one hour show uses period music, photographs, cartoons, maps and drawings to explore Grant’s successes and failures in military and civilian life, and provides the audience with a new understanding of Ulysses S. Grant, whom author H.W. Brands has called “The Man Who Saved the Union.”
This event is part of the Hoover Presidential Foundation, Herbert Hoover Presidential LIbrary and Museum, and Herbert Hoover National Historic Site Third Thursday Series. Each month on the Third Thursday, there will be a special evening program with a speaker and reception, free to the public! The receptions begin at 5:30 p.m. Guests will enjoy light appetizers and a choice of beverages. The program will begin at 6 p.m. and usually lasts about one hour. Topics vary by speaker and all are family-friendly.
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