Talk:Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

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Cleanup needed

Reads like a poorly written book review with little factual information on Grant's Memoirs. The article on Ulysses S. Grant is more informative on this subject. - 24.6.189.119 -- 20:36, 6 May 2006

Perhaps this should be made into a redirect to Ulysses S. Grant? There doesn't seem to be anything here worth saving. --Lendorien 23:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Memoirs themselves are considered a literary classic, and are worthy of a separate article. I started the process.--Idols of Mud 22:30, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like it's a fairly good and informational article now. It wasn't originally. Kudos to the editors. --Lendorien 18:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Royalties

"The Grant family, who received 75 percent of the royalties..."

If the Grant family got 75% then who got the other 25%? RJFJR (talk) 18:45, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Parody

Did somebody not write a fictionalised parody of Grant's "real" memoirs back in the 1990s? Presumably it was making the point that what makes it into the historical record is only an approximation, and sometimes not a very accurate one, of what really happened (writing the history of a battle would be like writing the history of a ball, as Wellington once put it). I came here because I can't remember who wrote it.Paulturtle (talk) 00:26, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Revisions and expansion

Hi, I'm working to expand this article as many of the important points in its compelling story are complex, and the sequence in which the Memoirs moved from an idea to a published set is difficult to see in the present article. Don't mind the skeletal outlines, I should be finished in a few days. Thanks Georgelazenby (talk) 20:29, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You now have a lengthy section about Twain, his finances, his house in Hartford, etc. What is it doing in this article? Who would look for it here? If you think it is a contribution, why would you not put it in Mark Twain, and cross-reference to it here? Bruce leverett (talk) 14:58, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree with the above. The article is unfortunately worse off than before. It was already slightly titled off-center from the subject (see the lead) but now it is way-way-off. The subject here is the book, it is not Twain, nor even Grant, it is the book. More reviews of the book and what's in the book is what would benefit this article not the stuff that has been added. 15:40, 4 November 2022 (UTC) Alanscottwalker (talk) 15:40, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All fair points. I'll make a separate page for the friendship of Grant and Twain. Georgelazenby (talk) 04:45, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]