Splendid Failure
Subtitle: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways Series)
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher; Ivan R. Dee
Published: June 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781566637343
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Race And Ethnic Relations; United States Local History; History; History - U.S; History: American; Central Southern states; United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); History / General; Discrimination & Racism; Economic Conditions; United States - Civil War; 1865-1877; 19th century; Politics and government; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); United States
Description: "Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have sympathized with the racial-justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on the Radicals' positive goals and accomplishments has obscured the role they played in the overthrow of their own program, which ultimately led to another century of inequality for Southern blacks. Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of this first freedom movement played into the hands of the South's white racist reactionaries."--BOOK JACKET.