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This is a very well-written and thoroughly researched book on one of the greatest police departments of the world. The book takes you from some of the earliest periods in Los Angeles, when vigilantes administered "justice," to volunteer town Marshals, the establishment of a small police force, paid on commission, to the actual establishment of a real police department and concluding in our present time. It candidly acknowledges and even explores long periods of political interference and the need to have a police chief who isn't beholding to self-serving politicians. The work is lavishly illustrated with dozens of period photographs. It is by far the most comprehensive book on the history of the LAPD to date. |
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Ulysses S. Grant: A Photographic History
Published by Southern Illinois University Press - April 27, 2022
By James Bultema
Grant is a photographic history of conceivably the most revered American of the nineteenth century—Ulysses S. Grant. His life is told through stunning historical photographs enhanced with Grant’s own words from his letters. When combined, the reader is provided with the true image of a celebrated man.
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Ulysses S. Grant’s popularity began during the Civil War and has not ended to this day. He is the most photographed American of the nineteenth century with 307 distinct images. The sheer number of photographs of Grant presents a numerical statement to his fame. The images reveal a remarkable transformation which spans Grant’s life from age twenty-one to his death at the age of sixty-three. Grant, over this period, sat for sixty-five different photographers on one hundred seven occasions. America could not get enough of Grant. While the images bring attention to Grant as a nineteenth century personality, examining the photographs do not tell us about Grant the man. We witness how he ages over time, his appearance subtly changes, but what we don’t see through these fading images is what was on Grant’s mind—his everyday experiences, his thoughts, his dreams, his love for family. To get close to Grant, to understand his choices and direction in life, one needs to listen to him talk, to consider his thoughts written to his best friends, family and especially his wife, Julia. For the reader, it’s then that Grant morphs from a stiff figure in front of a camera showing little emotion, to a warm human being expressing his innermost feelings about his life. This is the true image of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Ulysses S. Grant’s popularity began during the Civil War and has not ended to this day. He is the most photographed American of the nineteenth century with 307 distinct images. The sheer number of photographs of Grant presents a numerical statement to his fame. The images reveal a remarkable transformation which spans Grant’s life from age twenty-one to his death at the age of sixty-three. Grant, over this period, sat for sixty-five different photographers on one hundred seven occasions. America could not get enough of Grant. While the images bring attention to Grant as a nineteenth century personality, examining the photographs do not tell us about Grant the man. We witness how he ages over time, his appearance subtly changes, but what we don’t see through these fading images is what was on Grant’s mind—his everyday experiences, his thoughts, his dreams, his love for family. To get close to Grant, to understand his choices and direction in life, one needs to listen to him talk, to consider his thoughts written to his best friends, family and especially his wife, Julia. For the reader, it’s then that Grant morphs from a stiff figure in front of a camera showing little emotion, to a warm human being expressing his innermost feelings about his life. This is the true image of Ulysses S. Grant.