A Fool's Errand (The John Harvard Library)
Contributors: John Hope Franklin (Editor)
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: June 1961
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780674307513
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Reconstruction (U.S. history,; General; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Fiction; Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.); Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869); Southern States
Description: A thinly veiled account of Judge Albion W. Tourgee's own career as a forceful advocate of civil rights was a bestseller in the 1880s and continues to occupy a place in the history of American literature. Judge Tourgee's reflections on the fundamental post- abolition problem of how to build a bridge from black emancipation to black equality provide readers with a clear picture of the South during the Reconstruction era. Presented as a work of fiction, this engaging and provocative work discusses Reconstruction and the many problems surrounding it.