“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.”

“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