{"id":3745,"date":"2016-05-17T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/17\/44-books-on-44-presidents-the-man-who-divided-the-gop\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:50:16","slug":"44-books-on-44-presidents-the-man-who-divided-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/17\/44-books-on-44-presidents-the-man-who-divided-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"44 books on 44 presidents: The man who divided the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A4692d5fa5e84b1daa53fff141b720b9\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzE3LzY1L2E0NjkyZDVmYTVlLjgwNzk0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/4b312fd6\/232\/a4692d5fa5e84b1daa53fff141b720b9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=44+books+on+44+presidents%3A+The+man+who+divided+the+GOP&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F16%2F44in52-rutherford-hayes%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F16%2F44in52-rutherford-hayes%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the nineteenth entry in the writer&#8217;s year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus&#8217; progress at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/44in52\" target=\"_blank\">@44in52<\/a> Twitter account and with this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ekPO5hQQbunVqUz1c5nDcF9MOGIOyaQ08YwKmUc2FiE\/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">44 in 52 Spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See if any of these circumstances sound familiar:<\/p>\n<p>A Republican party at war with itself.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">An election so close that it comes down to a small group determining the validity of ballots in a southern state.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A president who finds his attempts at reform bogged down by opposition in Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not talking 2016, but 1876. All this proves two things: 1) President Rutherford B. Hayes was ahead of his time, and 2) time is a flat circle. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/16\/44in52-rutherford-hayes\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/rutherford-b.-hayes\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Rutherford B. Hayes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/44-in-52\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">44 In 52<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mashreads\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mashreads<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/history\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">History<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/gb33aPxFYzU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the nineteenth entry in the writer&#8217;s year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus&#8217; progress at the @44in52 Twitter account and with this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/17\/44-books-on-44-presidents-the-man-who-divided-the-gop\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2814,739,874,2815,2900],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-44-in-52","tag-entertainment","tag-history","tag-mashreads","tag-rutherford-b-hayes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}