15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks

15 bests nonfiction titles of 2011, according to the Monitor's reviewers

13. "Grant's Final Victory," by Charles Bracelen Flood

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)

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