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

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era. By Andrew L. Slap. Reconstructing America Series. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. [xxvi], 306. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2709-9.)

Hard as it might be to believe, it has been over eighty-five years since a monograph on the liberal republican movement has been published; the last was by Earle Dudley Ross in 1919. That movement peaked but did not culminate during the election of 1872, which featured a Liberal Republican pen (Horace Greeley) against a Radical Republican sword (Ulysses S. Grant). Proving the ...

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