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15. A huge hit & long overdue portrait of Grant

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #14)

Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:18 PM

Jun 2020

with some of the material from Ron Chernow's excellent biography. Kudos to exec. producer Leo DiCaprio.

I haven't seen it yet, but there's an online History Channel link to watch noted above.

*In post #7 here is a good, brief Video covering Grant's massive funeral tribute in NYC, and Frederick Douglass' high regard for him and what he did in terms of Emancipation and freedom for over 4 million people.

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