After Lincoln
How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.With Lincoln's assassination, his team of rivals,” in Doris Kearns Goodwin's phrase, was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stephens and Charles Sumner, who wanted to punish the defeated South. When Johnson's policies placated the rebels at the expense of the black freed men, radicals in the House impeached him…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4516-1734-4
- EAN: 9781451617344
- Produktnummer: 15586502
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 27'822 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 b&w photos t-o
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A. J. Langguth
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