The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era
Andrew L. Slap
Abstract
In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. This book argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, it demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings o ... More
Keywords: 1872 election, President Grant, Horace Greeley, Republican Party, reform movement, reconstruction, liberal republican politics, American political history
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823227099 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011 | DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823227099.001.0001 |
