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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and Fox News
Channel’s Chief Political Correspondent, a blockbuster new
biography of George Washington, centering on his return from
retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and secure the
future of the United States. George Washington rescued the nation
and the Constitution three times: first by winning the
Revolutionary War, second by presiding over the Constitutional
Convention and ushering the Constitution through a fractious
ratification process, and third by leading the nation as president
in its first years. There is no doubt that the struggling new
nation needed to be rescued. After the victorious war, when a
spirit of unity and patriotism might have been expected, instead
the nation was broken. The states were no more than a loosely knit
and contentious confederation, with no strong central union. They
were in constant conflict. A frustrated Washington wrote to James
Madison, “We are either a united people, or we are not… If we
are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it…” It
was an urgent matter, and led to the calling of a Constitutional
Convention. Setting aside his plan to retire to Mount Vernon, where
he had a happy family life and was fully engaged in his farming
enterprises, Washington agreed to be a delegate at the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. There he was unanimously
elected president of the convention. After successfully bringing
the Constitution into being, Washington then sacrificed any hope of
returning to private life by accepting the unanimous election to be
the nation’s first president. Washington was not known for
brilliant oratory or prose, but his quiet, steady leadership gave
life to the Constitution by showing how it should be enacted. He
not only helped write the nation’s blueprint; he lived it. In
this colorful and moving portrait of America’s early struggles,
when the fight for survival was constant, Baier captures the
dramatic moments when Washington’s leadership brought the nation
from the brink of collapse. Baier exposes an early America that is
grittier and far more divided than it is often portrayed—one we
can see reflected in today’s conflicts.
#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political
Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue
the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A
fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book." -Douglas
Brinkley An epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil
War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten
electoral crisis that nearly fractured a reunited nation, Bret
Baier's To Rescue the Republic dramatically reveals Ulysses S.
Grant's essential yet underappreciated role in preserving the
United States during an unprecedented period of division. Born a
tanner's son in rugged Ohio in 1822 and battle-tested by the
Mexican American War, Grant met his destiny on the bloody fields of
the Civil War. His daring and resolve as a general gained the
attention of President Lincoln, then desperate for bold leadership.
Lincoln appointed Grant as Lieutenant General of the Union Army in
March 1864. Within a year, Grant's forces had seized Richmond and
forced Robert E. Lee to surrender. Four years later, the reunified
nation faced another leadership void after Lincoln's assassination
and an unworthy successor completed his term. Again, Grant answered
the call. At stake once more was the future of the Union, for
though the Southern states had been defeated, it remained to be
seen if the former Confederacy could be reintegrated into the
country-and if the Union could ensure the rights and welfare of
African Americans in the South. Grant met the challenge by boldly
advancing an agenda of Reconstruction and aggressively countering
the Ku Klux Klan. In his final weeks in the White House, however,
Grant faced a crisis that threatened to undo his life's work. The
contested presidential election of 1876 produced no clear victory
for either Republican Rutherford B. Hayes or Democrat Samuel
Tilden, who carried most of the former Confederacy. Soon Southern
states vowed to revolt if Tilden was not declared the victor. Grant
was determined to use his influence to preserve the Union,
establishing an electoral commission to peaceably settle the issue.
Grant brokered a grand bargain: the installation of Republican
Hayes to the presidency, with concessions to the Democrats that
effectively ended Reconstruction. This painful compromise saved the
nation, but tragically condemned the South to another century of
civil-rights oppression. Deep with contemporary resonance and
brimming with fresh detail that takes readers from the battlefields
of the Civil War to the corridors of power where men decided the
fate of the nation in back rooms, To Rescue the Republic reveals
Grant, for all his complexity, to be among the first rank of
American heroes.
#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political
Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue
the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A
fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book." -Douglas
Brinkley An epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil
War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten
electoral crisis that nearly fractured a reunited nation, Bret
Baier's To Rescue the Republic dramatically reveals Ulysses S.
Grant's essential yet underappreciated role in preserving the
United States during an unprecedented period of division. Born a
tanner's son in rugged Ohio in 1822 and battle-tested by the
Mexican American War, Grant met his destiny on the bloody fields of
the Civil War. His daring and resolve as a general gained the
attention of President Lincoln, then desperate for bold leadership.
Lincoln appointed Grant as Lieutenant General of the Union Army in
March 1864. Within a year, Grant's forces had seized Richmond and
forced Robert E. Lee to surrender. Four years later, the reunified
nation faced another leadership void after Lincoln's assassination
and an unworthy successor completed his term. Again, Grant answered
the call. At stake once more was the future of the Union, for
though the Southern states had been defeated, it remained to be
seen if the former Confederacy could be reintegrated into the
country-and if the Union could ensure the rights and welfare of
African Americans in the South. Grant met the challenge by boldly
advancing an agenda of Reconstruction and aggressively countering
the Ku Klux Klan. In his final weeks in the White House, however,
Grant faced a crisis that threatened to undo his life's work. The
contested presidential election of 1876 produced no clear victory
for either Republican Rutherford B. Hayes or Democrat Samuel
Tilden, who carried most of the former Confederacy. Soon Southern
states vowed to revolt if Tilden was not declared the victor. Grant
was determined to use his influence to preserve the Union,
establishing an electoral commission to peaceably settle the issue.
Grant brokered a grand bargain: the installation of Republican
Hayes to the presidency, with concessions to the Democrats that
effectively ended Reconstruction. This painful compromise saved the
nation, but tragically condemned the South to another century of
civil-rights oppression. Deep with contemporary resonance and
brimming with fresh detail that takes readers from the battlefields
of the Civil War to the corridors of power where men decided the
fate of the nation in back rooms, To Rescue the Republic reveals
Grant, for all his complexity, to be among the first rank of
American heroes.
In January 1961, three days before President Dwight D. Eisenhower
passed the torch to John F. Kennedy, the president had one final
mission. In the young readers' edition of his New York Times
bestselling book, Fox News anchor Bret Baier examines the historic
transition and Eisenhower's last chance to lead the country he
loved through his legendary farewell address and his personal
appeals to Kennedy. Baier paints a vivid picture of the contrasts
between old and new at the beginning of a decisive decade in
American history. Eisenhower and Kennedy were very different men.
Eisenhower, at seventy, was an elder statesman, a five-star Army
general during WWII, and one of the most popular Republican
presidents of the past century. Kennedy, a forty-three-year-old
Democrat, had captured the nation's attention with his energy and
youth, but was inexperienced. Eisenhower believed he had hard-won
knowledge to pass on to his successor, but he didn't know if
Kennedy would listen. It was Eisenhower's final mission as
president to leave the new president, and the country, with the
lessons he had learned and guidance for a direction forward.
Meticulously researched, broad in scope, and full of timely
insights--as well as historic photographs--this edition will enable
young readers to experience a piece of "living history" and will
inspire a deeper understanding of the pivotal moments that forged
the next seventy-five years.
The Instant New York Times Bestseller "I could not put this
extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece:
elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably
researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a
classic!" -Jay Winik, bestselling author From the #1 bestselling
author and award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier,
comes the gripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where
FDR, Churchill, and Stalin plotted D-Day and the Second World War's
endgame. With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a
Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt risked
everything at a clandestine meeting that would change the course of
history. November 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled
nearly the entire European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific.
Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained them modest
ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the
Soviet Red Army had been bled white. The path of history walked a
knife's edge. That same month a daring gambit was hatched that
would alter everything. The "Big Three"-Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin-secretly met for the first
time to chart a strategy for defeating Adolf Hitler. Over three
days in Tehran, Iran, this trio-strange bedfellows united by their
mutual responsibility as heads of the Allied powers-made essential
decisions that would direct the final years of the war and its
aftermath. Meanwhile, looming over the covert meeting was the
possible threat of a Nazi assassination plot, code-named Operation
Long Jump. Before they left Tehran, the three leaders agreed to
open a second front in the West, spearheaded by Operation Overload
and the D-Day invasion of France at Normandy the following June.
They also discussed what might come after the war, including
dividing Germany and establishing the United Nations-plans that
laid the groundwork for the postwar world order and the Cold War.
Bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier's new
epic history, Three Days at the Brink, centers on these crucial
days in Tehran, the medieval Persian city on the edge of the
desert. Baier makes clear the importance of Roosevelt, who stood
apart as the sole leader of a democracy, recognizing him as the
lead strategist for the globe's future-the one man who could
ultimately allow or deny the others their place in history. With
new details discovered in rarely seen transcripts, oral histories,
and declassified State Department and presidential documents from
the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Baier illuminates the complex
character of Roosevelt, revealing a man who grew into his role and
accepted the greatest challenge any American president since
Lincoln had faced.
The Instant New York Times Bestseller I could not put this
extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece:
elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably
researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a
classic!" --Jay Winik, bestselling author From the #1 bestselling
author and award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier,
comes the gripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where
FDR, Churchill, and Stalin plotted D-Day and the Second World War's
endgame. With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a
Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt risked
everything at a clandestine meeting that would change the course of
history. November 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled
nearly the entire European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific.
Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained them modest
ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the
Soviet Red Army had been bled white. The path of history walked a
knife's edge. That same month a daring gambit was hatched that
would alter everything. The Big Three--Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--secretly met for the first
time to chart a strategy for defeating Adolf Hitler. Over three
days in Tehran, Iran, this trio--strange bedfellows united by their
mutual responsibility as heads of the Allied powers--made essential
decisions that would direct the final years of the war and its
aftermath. Meanwhile, looming over the covert meeting was the
possible threat of a Nazi assassination plot, code-named Operation
Long Jump. Before they left Tehran, the three leaders agreed to
open a second front in the West, spearheaded by Operation Overload
and the D-Day invasion of France at Normandy the following June.
They also discussed what might come after the war, including
dividing Germany and establishing the United Nations--plans that
laid the groundwork for the postwar world order and the Cold War.
Bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier's new
epic history, Three Days at the Brink, centers on these crucial
days in Tehran, the medieval Persian city on the edge of the
desert. Baier makes clear the importance of Roosevelt, who stood
apart as the sole leader of a democracy, recognizing him as the
lead strategist for the globe's future--the one man who could
ultimately allow or deny the others their place in history. With
new details discovered in rarely seen transcripts, oral histories,
and declassified State Department and presidential documents from
the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Baier illuminates the complex
character of Roosevelt, revealing a man who grew into his role and
accepted the greatest challenge any American president since
Lincoln had faced.
This young readers' edition from New York Times bestselling author
and Fox News anchor Bret Baier dives into the first of the secret
World War II meetings between President Franklin Roosevelt, Winston
Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, which would shape the world for
decades to come. In the process, it tells the story of the personal
and political evolution of Roosevelt, and how he came to be the man
who orchestrated the most decisive conference of the war. Following
Germany's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill offered his support to the Soviets. But by the time the
United States entered what had become the second World War in
history, it became crucial for the Allied forces to better align
themselves against the Axis powers. This meeting of the minds took
place in Tehran, and in attendance were some of the most iconic
leaders of the twentieth century: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. Though America, Britain, and
the Soviet Union all had a common enemy, their political goals
differed greatly. This young readers' edition will explore how
their united stance against Nazi Germany allowed them to mend their
differences, paving the way for what eventually became one of the
most important victories in world history. This book, which
includes an insert of photographs from that time, tells the inside
story of their secret conference.
SPECIAL HEART chronicles young Paul Baier's brave journey through
the seemingly endless maze of medical procedures and operations
required to sustain his life over the past five years. Two
open-heart surgeries and seven angioplasties later, five-year-old
Paul's example of courage and resilience has served to transform
Bret and Amy's beliefs about what matters most in life - totally
reshaping their definitions of character, faith, hope, courage and
love. Facing the greatest crisis of their lives, SPECIAL HEART
interweaves Paul's almost six-year medical ordeal with Bret and
Amy's own journey from the depths of despair to acceptance then to
hope. Told through the eyes of a loving father and master
storyteller, readers will hear Paul's inspiring story from a man
who just happens to be someone millions turn to for the day's news.
Although there are plenty of tears and pain to work through, at its
core SPECIAL HEART is an uplifting and inspiring testament to the
endurance and hope of an American family in crisis. Surviving every
parent's worst nightmare, Bret and Amy emerge - just like their
courageous son - scarred but not broken.
The blockbuster #1 national bestseller Bret Baier, the Chief
Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive
Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the
extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower
by taking readers into Ike's last days in power. "Magnificently
rendered. ... Destined to take its place as not only one of the
masterworks on Eisenhower, but as one of the classics of
presidential history. ... Impeccably researched, the book is
nothing short of extraordinary. What a triumph!"--JAY WINIK, New
York Times bestselling author of April 1865 and 1944 In Three Days
in January, Bret Baier masterfully casts the period between
Eisenhower's now-prophetic farewell address on the evening of
January 17, 1961, and Kennedy's inauguration on the afternoon of
January 20 as the closing act of one of modern America's greatest
leaders--during which Eisenhower urgently sought to prepare both
the country and the next president for the challenges ahead. Those
three days in January 1961, Baier shows, were the culmination of a
lifetime of service that took Ike from rural Kansas to West Point,
to the battlefields of World War II, and finally to the Oval
Office. When he left the White House, Dwight Eisenhower had done
more than perhaps any other modern American to set the nation, in
his words, "on our charted course toward permanent peace and human
betterment." On January 17, Eisenhower spoke to the nation in one
of the most remarkable farewell speeches in U.S. history. Ike
looked to the future, warning Americans against the dangers of
elevating partisanship above national interest, excessive
government budgets (particularly deficit spending), the expansion
of the military-industrial complex, and the creeping political
power of special interests. Seeking to ready a new generation for
power, Eisenhower intensely advised the forty-three-year-old
Kennedy before the inauguration. Baier also reveals how
Eisenhower's two terms changed America forever for the better, and
demonstrates how today Ike offers us the model of principled
leadership that polls say is so missing in politics. Three Days in
January forever makes clear that Eisenhower, an often forgotten
giant of U.S. history, still offers vital lessons for our own time
and stands as a lasting example of political leadership at its most
effective and honorable.
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