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Epps, Garrett

 
9780805071306: Democracy Reborn
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ISBN 10: 080507130X ISBN 13: 9780805071306
Editorial: Henry Holt, 2006

Sinopsis

A riveting narrative of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, an act which revolutionized the U.S. constitution and shaped the nation’s destiny in the wake of the Civil War

Though the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation inspired optimism for a new, happier reality for blacks, in truth the battle for equal rights was just beginning. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor, argued that the federal government could not abolish slavery. In Johnson’s America, there would be no black voting, no civil rights for blacks.

When a handful of men and women rose to challenge Johnson, the stage was set for a bruising constitutional battle. Garrett Epps, a novelist and constitutional scholar, takes the reader inside the halls of the Thirty-ninth Congress to witness the dramatic story of the Fourteenth Amendment’s creation. At the book’s center are a cast of characters every bit as fascinating as the Founding Fathers. Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, among others, understood that only with the votes of freed blacks could the American Republic be saved.

Democracy Reborn offers an engrossing account of a definitive turning point in our nation’s history and the significant legislation that reclaimed the democratic ideal of equal rights for all U.S. citizens.

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Acerca del autor

Garrett Epps is the author of The Shad Treatment and The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington. He is the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

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Editorial
Henry Holt
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
080507130X
ISBN 13 
9780805071306
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
352
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9780805086638: Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America

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ISBN 10:  0805086633 ISBN 13:  9780805086638
Editorial: Holt Paperbacks, 2007
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