Author: CANTACUZENE, Julia (Countess Speransky, nee Grant)
Title: Revolutionary Days: Including Passages from My Life Here and There, 1876-1917
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1999. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. lx, 449pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 2 color maps, illustrations (some color). Fine. Tight and lovely copy of the 97th title in R.R. Donnelley & Sons annual "Lakeside Classics" series of historical reprints. Reprint of General Ulysses S. Grant's granddaughter's 1919 memoir, plus excerpts from her 1921 memoir. Julia married a Russian prince and moved to Russia, where she hobnobbed among the imperial aristocracy, but this memoir includes touching recollections of the General's last years and death. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .

Keywords: Civil War


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