Grant

Um, so, uh, it's a, there's a book that, uh, that I've read years ago, uh, that was recommended to me by a mentor, which, uh, is, uh, a biography of Ulysses S.

Grant.

Um, and it's super long.

It's by the same author that, um, wrote the biography of Hamilton that, that inspired the musical, um, And what I love about this, and this is like this super long book, hundreds of pages.

But what I love about the story about Grant is that like that guy had a ton of failures.

And if you looked at him in his early career, you would never have guessed he'd become, you know, successful.

the head of the union army and one of our strongest presidents.

And the Mexican War, by the way, split the people who fought.

A lot of the people who fought in it ended up fighting the Civil War 20 years later and or 15 years later, including Grant and Lee and Longstreet and all these guys.

And they were split intensely at the time.

over the justice of that war.

No, the war against Mexico.

This was when over Texas and we invaded Veracruz.

And this is the coming out party militarily for people like Grant and Lee.

It was their their youth, basically, as lieutenants and captains in the military.