The Doom of Reconstruction : The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era / Andrew L. Slap.
Slap, Andrew L., author.
2022
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Title The Doom of Reconstruction : The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era / Andrew L. Slap.
Author Slap, Andrew L., author.
ISBN 9780823292851
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292851
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (306 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823292851 doi
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 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.
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Series Reconstructing America
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823227099
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Rehearsal in Missouri for the Liberal Republican Movement, 1865-1870
2 The Liberal Republican Conception of Party, 1848-1872
3 Preserving the Republic while Defeating the Slave Power, 1848-1865
4 The Liberal Republican Dilemma over Reconstruction, 1865-1868
5 Legacies of the Civil War Threaten the Republic, 1865-1872
6 Grant and the Republic, 1868-1872
7 The National Phase of the Liberal Republican Movement, 1870-1872
8 The Experience of a Third Party in the Nineteenth Century
9 The Lasting Effect of 1872 Campaign Rhetoric
10 The Liberal Republicans Try Again, 1872-1876
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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