The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era: 12 (Reconstructing America) - Hardcover

Slap, Andrew L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082322709X ISBN 13: 9780823227099

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2007

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Book by Slap Andrew L

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. . . An important addition to literature on Reconstruction. * -Choice * Slap's study focuses on a small, elite political group using mainly manuscripts and newspapers. * -Ohio History * Slap joins a growing company of historians who take seriously the ideas and beliefs espoused by political actors. * -American Historical Review * For a nuanced treatment of how liberal Republicans' beliefs evolved and drew on classical republicanism, and a clear narrative of the tangled intrigues in the Cincinnati convention, [Slap] can't be bettered. * -Civil War History * . . . A fine and necessary study. * -The Journal of Southern History * Slap offers an engaging and well-researched narrative that differentiates between the prolonged evolution, development, and political machinations of the liberary republican movement and the Liberal Republican Party. * -H-CivWar *

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 082322709X
• ISBN 13: 9780823227099
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306