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Patriotic Gore

By: Edmund Wilson

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Featuring critical and biographical portraits of notable figures of the American Civil War, Patriotic Gore remains one of Edmund Wilson's greatest achievements. Considered one of the 100 Best Nonfiction books by The Modern Library. Figures discussed include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among many others.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466899638

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9781466899636

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia

A Splendid Failure

By: Edmund L. Drago

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Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia

A Splendid Failure

By: Edmund L. Drago

This widely hailed study examines the reasons behind the quick demise of Radical Reconstruction in Georgia. Edmund L. Drago shows that a primary factor was, ironically, the extraordinary fairness on the part of the state's black leaders in dealing with their former masters. Lacking the sizable and experienced antebellum free-black class that existed in such states as South Carolina and Louisiana, Georgia's former slaves turned to their ministers for political leadership. Otherworldly and fatalistic, the ministers preached a message in which all people, even slaveholders, were deserving of God's mercy. Translated into politics, this message quickly and predictably brought disaster. Shortly after the black delegation to the state constitutional convention of 1867-1868 refused to support a provision guaranteeing blacks the right to hold office, blacks were expelled from the state legislature. Only then did the minister-politicians realize that they would have to become more militant and black-oriented if they were to challenge white supremacy. Propelled by this newfound toughness, they were soon able to achieve a limited success by bringing about the Second Reconstruction of Georgia. In the preface to this new edition, Drago surveys recent writing on Reconstruction and, drawing upon his own research on black leadership in South Carolina, compares experiences in that state to those in Georgia. It is time, he says, to give greater consideration to the role black women played in shaping politics and to the emergence of a black conservative political tradition. He also suggests that revisionists, in reacting to the racism in traditional histories, have sometimes glossed over issues of corruption and the black politician.

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237

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University of Georgia Press

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0820314382

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9780820314389

The Challenge of the American Revolution

By: Edmund S. Morgan

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The Challenge of the American Revolution

By: Edmund S. Morgan

Essays written over the past thirty years assess the American Revolution's abstract and specifically contemporary importance and study factors and events seen as contributing directly to American independence and a national consciousness.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393008762

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9780393008760

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin

A Dream Shattered, June, 1863–June, 1865

By: Edmund Ruffin

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The Diary of Edmund Ruffin

A Dream Shattered, June, 1863–June, 1865

By: Edmund Ruffin

In this last of the three-volume printed edition of The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, the celebrated Virginia agricultural reformer and apostle of secession chronicles the increasingly melancholy events of the last two years of the Civil War and of his own life. Apart from one brief sojourn in Charleston, Edmund Ruffin spent the last two years of the war in Virginia. Failing health and the course of the war prevented the devout Confederate from traveling to important battle sites and recording events there firsthand as he had done in the earlier years of the war. Unable to move about, Ruffin nonetheless continued to follow the war closely and to keep a daily commentary on contemporary events. This commentary provides a remarkably dispassionate and astute analysis of the declining military fortunes of the Confederacy as well as an illuminating portrait of deteriorating conditions on the home front. Yet this final volume of Ruffin’s diary is more than a record of “first impressions of public events,” as Ruffin claimed. Ruffin comments on religion, race, class, and politics. The topics he discusses range from the controversy over the enrollment of black troops and the transition to free labor at war’s end to an extended discourse on de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. As the final curtain fell on the Confederacy, the embittered southern nationalist, overwhelmed by physical maladies and familial misfortunes, resolved to take his own life. Only two months after Lee’s surrender to Grant, and less than fifty miles from Appomattox, Ruffin fired the last shot in his own private war against the Yankees—a bullet through his head. Rich in detail as well as in Ruffin’s personal beliefs, this carefully edited diary stands as one of the most valuable documents of the Civil War era.

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1046

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LSU Press

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0807114189

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9780807114186

Critical Companion to Herman Melville

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Carl Edmund Rollyson,Lisa Olson Paddock,April Gentry

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Critical Companion to Herman Melville

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Carl Edmund Rollyson,Lisa Olson Paddock,April Gentry

Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108478

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9781438108476

Confederate Phoenix

Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina

By: Edmund L. Drago

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Confederate Phoenix

Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina

By: Edmund L. Drago

In this innovative book, Edmund L. Drago tells the first full story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state, and the state where the Civil War erupted. Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, Drago shows how the War transformed the domestic world of the white South. Households were devastated by disease, death, and deprivation. Young people took up arms like adults, often with tragic results. Thousands of fathers and brothers died in battle; many returned home with grave physical and psychological wounds. Widows and orphans often had to fend for themselves. From the first volley at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor to the end of Reconstruction, Drago explores the extraordinary impact of war and defeat on the South Carolina home front. He covers a broad spectrum, from the effect of "boy soldiers" on the ideals of childhood and child rearing to changes in education, marriage customs, and community as well as family life. He surveys the children's literature of the era and explores the changing dimensions of Confederate patriarchal society. By studying the implications of the War and its legacy in cultural memory, Drago unveils the conflicting perspectives of South Carolina children--white and black--today.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823229378

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9780823229376

History Of The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson President Of The United States

By: Edmund G. Ross

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History Of The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson President Of The United States

By: Edmund G. Ross

The author of the book "History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States" is Kansas senator and politician Edmund G. Ross. In this historical work, Ross, who played a pivotal role in the impeachment trial as a swing vote, offers a firsthand perspective on the events and political climate surrounding Johnson's impeachment. Ross provides a thorough examination of the political, legal, and constitutional issues of the impeachment procedure. The book explores the tense relationship between President Johnson and the Republicans in Congress, who attempted to have him removed from office due to differences over Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War. Ross sheds light on the political scheming and heated discussions that took place at this pivotal time in American history by offering insights into the motives and methods of the major people involved. Readers of "History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States" get a useful historical overview of one of the most important impeachment proceedings in American history

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BoD – Books on Demand

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9358595531

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9789358595536

Colonel Roosevelt

By: Edmund Morris

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Colonel Roosevelt

By: Edmund Morris

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. “Hair-raising . . . awe-inspiring . . . a worthy close to a trilogy sure to be regarded as one of the best studies not just of any president, but of any American.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0375757074

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9780375757075

The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

Actions of the House of Representatives & Trial by the Senate for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Office: History Of The First Attempt to Impeach the President

By: Edmund G. Ross

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The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

Actions of the House of Representatives & Trial by the Senate for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Office: History Of The First Attempt to Impeach the President

By: Edmund G. Ross

This eBook edition of "The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Little is now known to the general public of the history of the attempt to remove President Andrew Johnson in 1868, on his impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial by the Senate for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors in office, or of the causes that led to it. Yet it was one of the most important and critical events, involving possibly the gravest consequences, in the entire history of the country. The constitutional power to impeach and remove the President had lain dormant since the organization of the Government, and apparently had never been thought of as a means for the satisfaction of political enmities or for the punishment of alleged executive misdemeanors, even in the many heated controversies between the President and Congress that had theretofore arisen. Nor would any attempt at impeachment have been made at that time but for the great numerical disparity then existing between the respective representatives in Congress of the two political parties of the country. Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union. His plans did not give protection to the former slaves, and he came into conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives. He was the first American president to be impeached, in the Senate by one vote.

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e-artnow

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8027241618

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9788027241613

Dutch

A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

By: Edmund Morris

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Dutch

A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

By: Edmund Morris

The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of hours of interviews with the President and his family, friends, allies, and enemies, equipped Morris with an unmatched knowledge of one of the twentieth century's greatest leaders. This monumental work offers the most insightful and elegant portrait to date of Ronald Reagan: the young "Dutch," the middle-aged Cold Warrior, and the septuagenarian Chief Executive. Written with imagination, yet always anchored by the weight of research and fact, Dutch stands as both a landmark in the form of biography and an unparalleled historical account of the rise and rule of Ronald Reagan.

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Modern Library

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0375756450

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9780375756450

Book's by Edmund Sherman

Patriotic Gore

Patriotic Gore

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia

The Challenge of the American Revolution

The Challenge of the American Revolution

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin

Critical Companion to Herman Melville

Critical Companion to Herman Melville

Confederate Phoenix

Confederate Phoenix

History Of The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson President Of The United States

History Of The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson President Of The United States

Colonel Roosevelt

Colonel Roosevelt

The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

Dutch

Dutch

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