U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth by Joan Waugh.

At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraha Lincoln.  Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings.  In U. S. Grant, Joan Waugh investigates Grant's place in public memory and the resonas behind the rise and fall of his renown while simultaneously underscoring the fluctuation membory of the Civil War itself.