Reappraises Grant's career, from his pre-civil war days as a failed soldier, to his transformation into the greatest Union hero of the Civil War, to his presidency, rocked by scandal and economic depression, and to his last days, when he raced to finish his war memoirs as he was dying of cancer.

Title from disc label. Originally broadcast in 2002 as a segment of the television program, American experience, a production of WGBH Boston. Special features: Interviews with the producers; "Who's in Grant's tomb", experts discuss Grant's character. Originally broadcast on television as an episode of American experience in 2002. Special features: Interviews with the producers Elizabeth Deane and Adriana Bosch -- "Who's in Grant's tomb?": experts discuss Grant's character.

episode I. The warrior /written and produced by Adriana Bosch ; directed by Adriana Bosch -- episode II. The president / written and produced by Elizabeth Deane ; directed by Elizabeth Deane.