In Grant Speaks, Ev Ehrlich takes history apart and reassembles it, superimposing his outrageous premise over meticulously chronicled events. Here is Grant, his mad blood brother Sherman, and all the other great figures of Grant's time, from Lincoln ("ugly enough to tax a mother's love") to Lee ("that sanctimonious momma's boy . . .( 7/2/00) - The News and Observer...allows us inside access to one of the most private personalities in history...readers will come to a new respect of the legendary cipher...a glorious book...