A solid appreciation of U.S. Grant
This column by Ta-Nehesi Coates is well worth reading. Great photo, too. Kicker: It’s all just too much. I am a black man, and God only knows what Grant would have made of me in that time, or in this one. I asked myself that question so many times while reading that I made myself ...
This column by Ta-Nehesi Coates is well worth reading. Great photo, too.
This column by Ta-Nehesi Coates is well worth reading. Great photo, too.
Kicker:
It’s all just too much. I am a black man, and God only knows what Grant would have made of me in that time, or in this one. I asked myself that question so many times while reading that I made myself ill. I don’t care to ever hear it again. Grant is splendid to me, and I am sick of keeping score.”
(HT to AS)
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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