In this Book
- The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
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 arguesforcefully 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxvi
- 6. Grant and the Republic,1868–1872
- pp. 108-125
- Conclusion
- pp. 238-240
- Bibliography
- pp. 279-294
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823247738
Related ISBN(s)
9780823227099
MARC Record
OCLC
647932088
Pages
306
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No