Seven months after Grant’s death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end – an astonishing sum for book royalties at the time. No previous book had ever sold so many copies in such a short period of time, and it rivaled that other literary sensation of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Clearly Grant had emerged victorious in his last uphill battle.
-Ron Chernow
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