Splendid Failure

Name: Splendid Failure
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
SKU: 9781566637398-G
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By Fitzgerald, Michael W

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Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have been sympathetic to the racial justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on positive goals and accomplishments has obscured the role of the Republicans in the overthrow of their own program. Rich with insight, 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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 256
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:: 2008-06-19
ISBN / EAN:: 9781566637398
Weight:: 320 g
Dimensions:: 14/22/1 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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