To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Disaster of 1876

From the #1 bestselling writer and anchor of Fox Information Channel’s Particular Report with Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the nice Civil Warfare commander’s battle to save lots of the Union continued to the very finish of his presidency when a disaster threatened to fracture the nonetheless fragile nation as soon as once more.

On this follow-up to his acclaimed “Three Days” trilogy, Bret Baier’s To Rescue the Republic dramatically illuminates the lifetime of one among America’s most consequential but misunderstood leaders, Ulysses S. Grant, whose actions each as basic and as president performed an unparalleled function in preserving america.

Born a tanner’s son in rugged Ohio in 1822 and battle-tested by the Mexican American Warfare, Grant met his future on the bloody fields of the Civil Warfare. His daring and resolve as a basic gained the eye of President Lincoln, then determined for daring management. Lincoln appointed Grant as Lieutenant Basic of the Union Military in March 1864. Inside a yr, Grant’s forces had seized Richmond and compelled Robert E. Lee to give up.

4 years later, the reunified nation confronted one other management void after Lincoln’s assassination and an unworthy successor accomplished his time period. Once more, Grant answered the decision. At stake as soon as extra was the way forward for the Union, for although the Southern states had been defeated, it remained to be seen if the previous Confederacy could possibly be reintegrated into the nation—and if the Union might make sure the rights and welfare of African Individuals within the South. Grant met the problem by boldly advancing an agenda of Reconstruction and aggressively countering the Ku Klux Klan.  

In his last weeks within the White Home, nonetheless, Grant confronted a disaster that threatened to undo his life’s work. The contested presidential election of 1876 produced no clear victory for both Republican Rutherford B. Hayes or Democrat Samuel Tilden, who carried many of the former Confederacy. Quickly Southern states vowed to revolt if Tilden was not declared the victor. Grant was decided to make use of his affect to protect the Union, establishing an electoral fee to peaceably settle the problem. Grant brokered a grand cut price: the set up of Republican Hayes to the presidency, with concessions to the Democrats that successfully ended Reconstruction. This painful compromise saved the nation, however tragically condemned the South to a different century of civil-rights oppression.

Deep with up to date resonance and brimming with contemporary element that takes readers from the battlefields of the Civil Warfare to the corridors of energy the place males determined the destiny of the nation in again rooms, To Rescue the Republic reveals Grant, for all his complexity, to be among the many first rank of American heroes.