The Reycraft Books The Hour of the Horse: When General Grant Met the Emperor of Japan

Hiram Ulysses Grant and Sachi no Miya were born half a world and thirty years apart. The two boys had nothing in common, but both grew up to become leaders of their era--Hiram as Union Army general and U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant, and Sachi as Mutsuhito, the 122nd emperor of Japan. While General Grant secured a Union victory in the American Civil War and became the country's 18th president, Mutsuhito's government began to modernize Japan. This included opening Japan's borders to the outside world for the first time in over 200 years. Soon after, Japan was thrown into its own civil war that changed the nation forever. Told in stunning verse, The Hour of the Horse details the remarkably parallel lives of two men who helped reunite their divided countries--and the fateful day when they met.