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

by Andrew L. Slap

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823227103
• ISBN13: 9780823227105
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"