Biographer Jean Edward Smith, Who Brought Grant And Eisenhower Out Of Obscurity, Has Died At 83
(ArtsJournal)

Smith not only cleared up the reputation of President Ulysses Grant – showing that “Grant´s poor reputation as president had been fostered in part by biased graduate students at Columbia University who wrote the first studies of Reconstructionâ€� – but restored to prominence the contributions of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme […]