Ulysses S. Grant: His Last Desperate Days
The cancer-ridden president knocked out 10,000 words a day as he raced to complete his memoirs before his death.
The cancer-ridden president knocked out 10,000 words a day as he raced to complete his memoirs before his death.
One of the all-time superstars of American jurisprudence, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was born on this day 170 years ago.