Historian Charles Bracelen Flood offers a fascinating coda to a remarkable life in Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant鈥檚 Heroic Last Year (DaCapo Press, 288 pp.), a brisk, well-told history of the last months of Ulysses S. Grant. Monitor reviewer Erik Spanberg says that Flood demonstrates 鈥渁 keen understanding of Grant and other major figures鈥 as he chronicles 鈥渙ne of the most courageous exits in American history.鈥 (CSMonitor.com, 10/19/11)