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Robert S. Levine

The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-324-00475-2
  • EAN: 9781324004752
  • Produktnummer: 34786340
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.

Über den Autor


Robert S. Levine, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, is general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Awarded Guggenheim and NEH Senior Fellowships, he is author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass, among other works. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.

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