To Rescue the Republic Quotes

“The truth is that Grant was a hero who happened to live in a myth-making age, which could not tolerate human weaknesses in its idols." (Quoting Historian D. Brown)”
― Bret Baier, To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

“If the rebellion could force us to forgo or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered or ruined us.” At”
― Bret Baier, To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876