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Meet Ulysses S. Grant: Written Off at 38

Failed farmer, failed businessman, store clerk — then history handed him a war and found out who he was.

He turned Voyager's camera around, and gave humanity its most humbling family photo.

He wrote the greatest novels ever — then at fifty asked why, and the answer changed his life.

Thirty-seven plays, every human type, and half the phrases you said this week.

The soldier-philosopher who explained why plans die on contact — and how to plan anyway.

Abandoned as a boy, he built history's largest land empire on merit, law, and terrifying resolve.

General, author, dictator — the sharpest study in decisiveness, and in what unchecked ambition invites.

He retook Jerusalem — and spared it. Even his enemies wrote poems about him.

Twenty-seven years in prison — and he came out to build with his jailers rather than bury them.

Asthmatic child, grieving widower, Rough Rider, trust-buster — he made vigor a philosophy of life.