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The Doom of Reconstruction

The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era

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Andrew L. Slap

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Hardback

Series:

Reconstructing America

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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.

Author Biography:

Andrew L. Slap is Associate 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 University Press, 2006) and editor of Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath (University Press of Kentucky, 2010). His current project on African American communities around Memphis during the Civil War era is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Release date Australia

February 15th, 2007

Author

Andrew L. Slap

Audience

Undergraduate

Pages

306

Series

Reconstructing America

Dimensions

5830x3895x27

ISBN-13

9780823227099

Product ID

3906076

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