Author: George Sewall Boutwell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519667571
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs - Volume II" from George Sewall Boutwell. American statesman who served as Secretary of the Treasury (1818 - 1905).
Author: George S. Boutwell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752312904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Reproduction of the original: Reminicenses of Sixty Years in Public Affairs by George S. Boutwell
Author: George S. Boutwell
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017872392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: George Sewall Boutwell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519667458
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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"Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs - Volume I" from George Sewall Boutwell. American statesman who served as Secretary of the Treasury (1818 - 1905).
Author: George S. (George Sewall) 181 Boutwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781373429988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Author: George Sewall Boutwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: William S. McFeely
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country."—C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography."—Justin Kaplan, The New Republic
Author: Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593317815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as “the first organized terrorist movement in American history,” rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number of them landowners, lawmen, doctors, journalists, and churchmen, as well as future governors and congressmen. And their mission was to obliterate the muscular democratic power of newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, often by the most horrifying means imaginable. To repel the virulent tidal wave of violence, President Ulysses S. Grant waged a two-term battle against both armed Southern enemies of Reconstruction and Northern politicians seduced by visions of postwar conciliation, testing the limits of the federal government in determining the extent of states’ rights. In this book, Bordewich transports us to the front lines, in the hamlets of the former Confederate States and in the marble corridors of Congress, reviving an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures such as crusading Missouri senator Carl Schurz, who sacrificed the rights of Black Americans in the name of political “reform,” and the ruthless former slave trader and Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Klan War is a bold and bracing record of America’s past that reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies.
Author: Boston Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Mark Wahlgren Summers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961040X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was--first and foremost--to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. During Reconstruction there were always fears in the mix--that the Civil War had settled nothing, that the Union was still in peril, and that its enemies and the enemies of republican government were more resilient and cunning than normal mortals. Many factors shaped the reintegration of the former Confederate states and the North's commitment to Reconstruction, Summers agrees, but the fears of war reigniting, plots against liberty, and a president prepared to father a coup d'etat ranked higher among them than historians have recognized. Both a dramatic narrative of the events of Reconstruction and a groundbreaking new look at what drove these events, A Dangerous Stir is also a valuable look at the role of fear in the politics of the time--and in politics in general.
