@article{1477907,
      recid = {1477907},
      author = {Slap, Andrew L., },
      title = {The Doom of Reconstruction : The Liberal Republicans in  the Civil War Era /},
      pages = {1 online resource (306 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477907},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292851},
}