Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South

Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways)
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Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure recounts how postwar financial missteps and other governance problems quickly soured idealistic Northerners on the practical consequences of the Radical Republican plan, and set the stage for the explosion that swept Southern Republicans from power and resulted in Northern acquiescence to the bloody repression of voting rights. The failed strategy offers a chastening example to present-day proponents of racial equality.
Country USA
Brand Ivan R. Dee
Manufacturer Ivan R. Dee
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2008-06-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781566637398

Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways)