Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction

by Ira Katznelson, John S Lapinski, David A. Bateman, et al.

Book Overview

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil War

No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal--and along the way remade the region and the nation in their own image.

The central paradox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691204098
• ISBN13: 9780691204093
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"