The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era - Couverture rigide

Slap, Andrew L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 082322709X ISBN 13 : 9780823227099

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues
forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election.

Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, Slap confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? His focus on the unintended consequences of Liberal Republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew L. Slap is a Professor of history at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (Fordham). He is also the editor or co-editor of three volumes on the Civil War era. His current book project is "African American Communities during Slavery, War, and Peace: Memphis in the Nineteenth Century."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082322709X
• ISBN 13: 9780823227099
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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