Free Download Edwina S. Campbell, "Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth: Ulysses S. Grant’s Postpresidential Diplomacy "
English | ISBN: 080933478X | 2016 | 280 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
In 1877 former president Ulysses S. Grant, along with his family and friends, embarked on a two-year world tour that took him from Liverpool to Yokohama with stops throughout Europe and Asia. Biographies of Grant deal very briefly, if at all, with this tour and generally treat it as a pleasure trip filled with sightseeing, shopping, wining, and dining. Far from an extended vacation, however, Grant’s travels in fact constituted a diplomatic mission sanctioned by the U.S. government. In this revealing volume, Edwina S. Campbell chronicles Grant’s journey-the first diplomatic mission ever undertaken by a former U.S. president-and demonstrates how it marked a decided turning point in the role of the United States in world affairs.
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