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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein recommended Grant's memoirs as a long, funny, and incisive reflection on leadership.
The first one I want to recommend is the memoirs by Ulysses Grant. It covers his time at West Point, fighting in the MexicanAmerican war, in the Civil War. It ends before he gets to the presidency. He...
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Episode: What We Learned Reading Ron DeSantis's Books
Ezra Klein recommended Grant's memoirs as a long, funny, and incisive reflection on leadership.
The first one I want to recommend is the memoirs by Ulysses Grant. It covers his time at West Point, fighting in the MexicanAmerican war, in the Civil War. It ends before he gets to the presidency. He wrote it in the last months of his life. He needed the money. And that's a big reason that he wrote this book. It is a lengthy book, a remarkable book. It is funny. It is incisive.