starting at that weight to give us a perspective on things was the way to go. the book ends by the way after the george floyd protests and statues being pulled down in the san francisco park. the reporter says why are you pulling this down? they say he s part of the civil war. he had. grant spends his whole life fighting slavery, fighting for black equality, for the right to vote. it just made me have this appreciation of a presidency that largely is overlooked. neil: grant was already wrapping up his charms. he was trying to deal with the controversy of the election. your book, how close we were in the fears that were justified at the south would try to rise again. they were ticked off, laid out that the wrong guy was winning at all this and there were concessions that were made to the south that we don t realize how much grant did to stave off