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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826619903321

Autore

Slap Andrew L

Titolo

The doom of Reconstruction [[electronic resource] ] : the liberal Republicans in the Civil War era / / Andrew L. Slap

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8232-3499-1

0-8232-4773-2

1-282-77592-8

9786612775925

0-8232-2711-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 306 p. )

Collana

Reconstructing America series ; ; no. 12

Classificazione

15.85

Disciplina

324.2732

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 1872

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

United States Politics and government 1849-1861

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

United States Politics and government 1865-1877

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rehearsal in Missouri for the Liberal Republican Movement, 1865-1870 -- The Liberal Republican Conception of Party, 1848-1872 -- Preserving the Republic while defeating the slave power, 1848-1865 -- The Liberal Republican dilemma over reconstruction, 1865-1868 -- Legacies of the Civil War threaten the Republic, 1865-1872 -- Grant and the republic, 1868-1872 -- The national phase of the Liberal Republican Movement, 1870-1872 -- The experience of a third party in the nineteenth century -- The lasting effect of 1872 campaign rhetoric -- The Liberal Republicans try again, 1872-1876.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Republican Party. In this study, Andrew Slap argues that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between party elites and a class-based radical reform movement.