“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes
Blaise Picchi and David dive into Ulysses Grant's life and experiences in this episode they pick up his story at the very beginning traveling through his childhood and West Point years eventually ending in the home he built with his own hands, Hardscrabble.
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.”
"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads." -Shelby Foote
Brains and Brawn 