GRANT—ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY FOR MANY YEARS.

GRANT—ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY FOR MANY YEARS. Ta-Nehisi Coates notes that: ‘there’s also a rather nasty political aspect to the charge that Grant didn’t really write his memoirs” and links to this post by Cynic for an elaboration. Cynic describes some of the historians who for many years wrote the history of the Civil War as the story of the Lost Cause, with Lee as a noble hero and with his adversary—Grant— an incompetent butcher. I posted here about the irony that Grant and Harding, who were ranked as the two worst presidents in a 1948 poll of American historians, had in common that they had were too favorable to rights for African-Americans.