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What are some other books about being a drunk who isn't good at your job, or anything really?

>> No.17839140
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>>17839131

>> No.17839250

Whats the best Robert E. Lee biography bros?

>> No.17839329

>>17839131
I love Grant, OP definitely guzzles cum

>> No.17839331

>>17839131
O'Neill The Hairy Ape

>> No.17839372

>>17839329
Grant definitely gets maligned by myths of "corruption" created by Confederate remnants, that's for sure. By the time he came in, reconstruction had already been thoroughly sabotaged, I'd drink too.

>> No.17839383

Grant was a good president and good man

>> No.17839388

>>17839383
you can be a good man, a good president, and an alcoholic all at the same time

>> No.17839419

>>17839372
>>17839388
There’s no evidence or even stories that he drank at all during his presidency. Probably because unlike the War, he was always around his family

>> No.17839474
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>>17839131
Not a book but a rare unknown movie, it's called "7 Chinese Brothers" and it's kinda a slice of life, I liked it.

>> No.17839485

>>17839372
>myths
his cabinet was one of the most corrupt ever, he wasn't personally corrupt but still

>> No.17839496

>>17839131
My dad has an autistic obsession with Grant, he read two giant bios on him and his memoirs (he has a LOA hardcover on his bookshelf). I remember when I was a kid we visited his tomb, kinda sad since I remember there was some weird (((modern art))) installation around it..

>> No.17839507

>>17839383
Grant was a good man but foolish with his money and matters of money in general.

>> No.17839556

Grant’s Memoirs are some of the best writing by any president, not bad considering he wasn’t a Jefferson tier brainiac. His clear concise prose was an inspiration for American modernist writers and his accounts of the Mexican and Civil Wars are great military history. He makes his case without being a self aggrandizing asshole and he’s often harder on some other Union generals than the Rebs. Fun fact: He finished as he was dying from throat cancer and was using liquid cocaine to alleviate the pain.

>> No.17839583

>>17839419
I haven't read any long Grant biographies but John Keegan said Grant's main vice was smoking and he only drank when his wife wasn't around (jacking off hadn't gotten popular yet and he'd kicked all the Jews out of his camp), and rarely to excess.

>> No.17839606

>>17839474
and no it's not a normie film, it's just a dude who likes to drink and nothing really happens except that he has no money, loses his job and is actually screwed.

and it's a fucking secret tipp.

>> No.17839819

>>17839556
I've never done coke, does it actually work as a painkiller? I've only seen people do it so they can drink more for longer

>> No.17839834

>>17839372
wait this guy fought to free the africans? kek

>> No.17839858

>>17839331
There's actually quite a few O'Neill plays with this character.

>> No.17839895

>>17839819
It has legit uses for oral surgery as a painkiller. Grant was spritzing his throat with cocaine mist. Whatever you think of him, it was heroic how he kept writing while dying in severe pain to provide financial security for his family after he had gone bankrupt with bad investments.

>> No.17839903

>>17839131
Bukowski

>> No.17839914

>>17839383
Grant was a good man and an excellent general but not a very good president.

T. Massive Grant fanboy

>> No.17839958

>>17839914
his presidency was fucked up mostly by its timing, less so by its policies, the Johnson administration had purposely botched reconstruction and the Republican party wasn't willing to do real land reform by that point

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Moscow Stations - Venedikt Yerofeyev

>> No.17840238

>>17839958
True, but while he would have been a fine president at any other time, Grant wasn't the guy that the country needed at the time. He didn't have the vision or the political saavy to oversee such a critical juncture in US history. You can also tell that the man hated his time in office and I personally get the impression he was ashamed of it

>> No.17841611

>>17840238
>You can also tell that the man hated his time in office
Idk he was pretty disappointed later when he didn’t get a nomination for the third term