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Ron Chernow reconstructs image, impact of 'Grant'

by Kim Ode, Kim Ode

The Civil War had a moment of formal surrender between its generals at Appomattox in 1865, when the South's Robert E. Lee yielded­ to the North's Ulysses­ S. Grant.But the war never really ended.Ron Chernow, whose biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired a blockbuster Broadway musical, illustrates this in his latest book, "Grant." The war chapters are riveting, but he also takes readers into the less familiar t…

SOURCE: Boston Herald at 1:00am on November 3, 2017