“Grantism”
President Grant was lampooned on both sides of the Atlantic for the problems of his scandal-ridden administration. The British magazine Puck shows Grant barely defying gravity to keep himself and his corrupt subordinates aloft and out of jail. To a great extent, however, the hero of the Union army remained personally popular at home and abroad. The British public welcomed Grant with admiration on his triumphant foreign tour in 1877. Library of Congress.