Statesmanship and reconstruction : moderate versus radical Republicans on restoring the Union after the Civil War / Philip B. Lyons.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lyons, Philip B. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Subjects:	Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History > 19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877. History.

Table of Contents:

Why a study of reconstruction statesmanship?
Lincoln on reconstruction
Johnson and reconstruction
Bringing the Declaration of Independence to the South : the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment
Recipe for factionalism in the defeated states : the drafting of the Congressional Reconstruction Act and supplements thereto
The collapse of reconstruction in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia
The hunt for a middle ground : South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee
Strong leaders but to no avail : Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas
Reconstruction statesmen at work : Virginia and Florida
Grant's disillusionment
Moderate republicanism and the end of reconstruction.

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