Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice - Bruce Levine - Grāmatas - Simon & Schuster - 9781476793382 - 2022. gada 1. marts
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

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A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America.

Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution--a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party's radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies--including welcoming black men into the Union's armies--would prove crucial to the Union war effort.

During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans--rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party--and America--towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders' estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved.

In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a "vital" (The Guardian), "compelling" (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.


336 pages

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Izlaists 2022. gada 1. marts
ISBN13 9781476793382
Izdevēji Simon & Schuster
Lapas 336
Izmēri 140 × 213 × 20 mm   ·   294 g
Valoda Angļu  

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