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The failed promise : Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Published [2021] by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
ISBN 9781324004752
Bib Id 1118094
Copyright 2021
Edition First edition.
Description xxii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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2021-005132
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9781324004752 (hardcover) $27.00
1324004754
9781324021797 (paperback) $16.95
1324021799
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973.8 L
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The failed promise : Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Edition
First edition.
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[2021] by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
xxii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: Lincoln's Second Inauguration -- Southern Unionist -- The Mission of the War -- "Abraham Lincoln Dies, the Republic Lives" -- "There Is No Such Thing as Reconstruction" -- A Moses in the White House -- The Black Delegation Visits a Moses of Their People -- The President's Riots -- Shadowing Johnson, Defying the Loyalists -- Sources of Danger to the Republic -- A Job Offer -- The Trials of Impeachment -- "Demented Moses of Tennessee" -- Epilogue: "We Have a Fight on Our Hands".
Summary
"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's most influential Black leader, increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the fate of Reconstruction. Their animosity only grew as Johnson sought to undermine Reconstruction and conciliate leaders of the former Confederate states. Robert S. Levine grippingly recounts the conflicts that led to Johnson's impeachment from the perspective of Douglass and the wider Black community. In counterpointing the lives and careers of Douglass and Johnson, Levine offers a fresh vision of the lost promise and dire failure of Reconstruction"--
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