The Reconstruction Presidents - Hardcover

Brooks D. Simpson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700608966 ISBN 13: 9780700608966

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1998

Synopsis

During and after the Civil War, four presidents faced the challenge of reuniting the nation and providing justice for black Americans. This book examines the Reconstruction policies of Lincoln, Johnson, Grant and Hayes and reveals how they responded to the complex issues that confronted them.

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Review:

An excellent study that will be consulted not only by specialists but by anyone interested in the history of the Civil War, American race relations, and American government.American Historical Review

A superb book that places the Reconstruction presidentsAbraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayesin the context of their times and illuminates the difficult and complex task they faced.Florida Historical Quarterly

A thoughtful and well-written book that deserves widespread attention.Journal of American History

"A thoughtful reminder both of the limits of the possible in Reconstruction and of the need to expand the agenda of inquiry beyond the concept of race in the minds of the nation's presidents. Simpson has a fine sense of the politics of the age, an age where the demands of politics propelled policy making profoundly."Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

"A valuable and lively account of Reconstruction as a national policy problem. A very accessible perspective on a complicated, even intractable, episode in American history that highlights the differences in each man's policies and styles of leadership."Michael Perman, author of The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 18691879

About the Author:

Brooks D. Simpson is professor of history at Arizona State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0700608966
• ISBN 13: 9780700608966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272