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So eventually, Grant did go with Twain's offer

So eventually, Grantdid go with Twain's offer to make money for his familyto save them...

Grant • S01E03 • 2020

So eventually, Grant
did go with Twain's offer to make money for his family
to save them from poverty. ♪ ♪ ‐ But during the summer
before he started writing, he bites into a peach,
and he says that somehow something stung him
from the peach in his throat and he can't figure out
what it is. He sees a doctor,
and at that point, they realize that it's cancer
and that they can't operate. So he realizes
that it's fatal. ♪ ♪ ‐ What is to be my fate? Will I have
to lay awake again? Making it a study
how to get a breath is about as much
as I could stand to go through another night. ‐ Grant wrote the memoirs
under horrific conditions. He said that every time
he drank a glass of water, it was like drinking
a glass of molten lead

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So eventually, Grant did go with Twain's offer

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to make money for his family to save them from poverty.

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♪ ♪

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‐ But during the summer before he started writing,

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he bites into a peach, and he says that somehow

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something stung him from the peach in his throat

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and he can't figure out what it is.

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He sees a doctor, and at that point,

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they realize that it's cancer and that they can't operate.

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So he realizes that it's fatal.

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♪ ♪

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‐ What is to be my fate?

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Will I have to lay awake again?

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Making it a study how to get a breath

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is about as much as I could stand

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to go through another night.

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‐ Grant wrote the memoirs under horrific conditions.

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He said that every time he drank a glass of water,

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it was like drinking a glass of molten lead.

Duration

59 seconds

Views

31

Timestamp in Movie

01:18:12

Uploaded

May 27, 2025

Season

1

Episode

3

Genres

documentary, biography, history

Production

RadicalMedia,Appian Way,A+E Global Media,Lionsgate Television,Film Afrika

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Movie Summary

The documentary-series examines Ulysses S. Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.