Historian Charles Bracelen Flood offers a fascinating coda to a remarkable life in Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year (DaCapo Press, 288 pp.), a brisk, well-told history of the last months of Ulysses S. Grant. Monitor reviewer Erik Spanberg says that Flood demonstrates “a keen understanding of Grant and other major figures” as he chronicles “one of the most courageous exits in American history.” (CSMonitor.com, 10/19/11)