Bartleby Weekly: April 24, 2000

Bartleby Weekly

Volume I, Issue 6. April 24, 2000

U.S. Grant

Celebrate U.S. Grant’s Birthday, April 27th

Considered among the greatest of military memoirs, the two volumes were an immediate bestseller. With the help of his publisher, Mark Twain, Grant wrote to the last month of his life to leave a legacy for his family after being defrauded a year earlier of his estate. At times whispering corrections with a voice ravaged by throat cancer, at times communicating with slips of paper, his unique detailed perspectives on the Mexican and Civil wars will enthrall any history buff:

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Read Poetry and Support Organ Donation

Some 69,000 Americans are currently on the national patient waiting list for organ donation. Twelve of them will die today and every day while waiting. Become inspired to sign up for donation with the following “organ”-related poems:

Heart, Liver and Kidney

And, then give the gift of life with the help of the Coalition for Donation Web site:

www.shareyourlife.org/

Read these poems and many more in Bartleby.com’s Anthologies of English and American Verse.

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