celebrity, grant refused to trumpet his accomplish. s in print. when did you decide to start that way in your book? when i started the book i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography and that stopped me dead in my tracks. i thought about that comment for many days. then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions in grant s memoirs. i should say grant s book, it s not really an autobiography. it s a military memoir. covers the mexican war. he covers the civil war. there s not a word, for instance, about that small thing, his two-term presidency and the remaining events in his life. but i ended up again zeroing in on those things that grant did not want to talk about, particularly his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and his repeated business failures. i want to start
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part, i think, because it is so direct and so poetic, and the words carry so much meaning in such a short space. ifill: those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: the nation s largest bank admitted today that it misrepresented mortgage- backed securities that collapsed in the 2008 crash. with that, j.p. morgan chase agreed to pay $13 billion, the largest settlement ever between a private company and the government. we ll hear much more on the details
LOCK HAVEN Multiple Clinton County Government positions will be featured on the ballot in Tuesday, Nov. 7’s General Election. These include three seats