Format:
Online-Ressource (xxv, 306 p)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
1282775928
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9781282775923
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9780823227112
Series Statement:
Reconstructing America series no. [12]
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-293) and index
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""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""
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""The Lasting Effect of 1872 Campaign Rhetoric""""The Liberal Republicans Try Again, 1872�1876""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282775626
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823227099
Additional Edition:
Print version Doom of Reconstruction : The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era
Language:
English
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