Me too, most excited to reas about John Quincy Adams, Grant, Garfield, McKinley and FDR, mainly because there are some specific books I'm looking at. I think they will all be interesting though!
I can't wait to delve in. The book I received on him is "The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant" by Elizabeth D. Samet. Looking forward to it. There are also places around where I live that I can visit related to Grant when I get to his books!
Grant started his memoirs when he was living at the St Denis Hotel, which was located in what's now New York's East Village. He got writer's block and eventually moved to Grant Cottage to complete it. The hotel had many historical figures as guests in its heyday. I used to walk by this building when I lived in the neighborhood years ago and had no idea it had been such a storied building. In one of the more shameful episodes of New York real estate development this building was torn down about ten years ago to be replaced by a glass box. https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/06/st-denis-last-days.html
Excited to see where the journey through presidential biographies takes you.
Me too, most excited to reas about John Quincy Adams, Grant, Garfield, McKinley and FDR, mainly because there are some specific books I'm looking at. I think they will all be interesting though!
Grant is a fascinating person.
I can't wait to delve in. The book I received on him is "The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant" by Elizabeth D. Samet. Looking forward to it. There are also places around where I live that I can visit related to Grant when I get to his books!
Grant started his memoirs when he was living at the St Denis Hotel, which was located in what's now New York's East Village. He got writer's block and eventually moved to Grant Cottage to complete it. The hotel had many historical figures as guests in its heyday. I used to walk by this building when I lived in the neighborhood years ago and had no idea it had been such a storied building. In one of the more shameful episodes of New York real estate development this building was torn down about ten years ago to be replaced by a glass box. https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/06/st-denis-last-days.html