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Blaise Picchi and David close the series by turning from Grant the general to Grant the president, following him out of the field and into an office no framework had prepared him for. They trace three defining episodes of the administration: the Enforcement Acts and the federal war on the Klan, where troops and suspended habeas corpus tested how far Washington could go to protect the freedmen; the Treaty of Washington and the Alabama Claims, where a rising power chose arbitration over war with Britain and set a template the world still uses; and the Whiskey Ring and the Panic of 1873, where a famously honest man watched his own secretary indicted and learned how little personal integrity can do against a corrupt machine. They end where the series has been headed all along, asking whether Grant was a soldier out of his depth or a pragmatic reformer wrestling honestly with problems no one had solved before.
Brains and Brawn 