Grants Cottage And Death.

here is the segment on President and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant from the 2008 WMHT documentary Presidents in Our Backyard. This focuses on the last weeks of Grant’s life in Saratoga County, New York. The crew takes you inside to see the cottage almost exactly the way it was in 1885!

I found the link to this video in Civil Warriors.

Brooks D. Simpson has some interesting things to say about Grants Memoirs and generally about writing memoirs and knowingly facing death while doing so.

Writing while facing death brings to my mind Randy Pausch and his Last Lecture that started out as an academic gimmick and turned into a book written on a bicycle, with the help of a shadow author and a cell phone.

Obviously You can’t compare Randy Pausch to Grant in any way except for this little way in the bravery of how they faced there death in determination to pass on their point of view.