Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice (Signed By Author)

Bruce Levine

ISBN 10: 1476793379 / ISBN 13: 9781476793375

Published by Simon & Schuster, 2021

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This is a solid & clean & square Civil war / Biography hardcover in Near Fine condition, with a Near Fine Jacket. 2021. 1st Edition & 1st Printing. (Signed by author on Free Page). This book is in Wonderful condition both inside and out. It looks very lightly read. The cover is very bright & very clean. The edges are all very good. The spine ends are very nice with just a little light wrinkle. . It has nice Corners. The pages are tight & bright & unmarked. No names. The jacket with price has only light shelf wear. Very bright & very clean. No remainder marks. Nice Illustrations. 309 pages. All books are securely packaged and Promptly Mailed. #23777-226.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice (Signed By Author)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476793379
• ISBN 13: 9781476793375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War Books

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Synopsis

A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of Thaddeus Stevens—one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen—encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America.

Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies—including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies—would prove crucial to the Union war effort.

During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans—rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party—and America—towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders’ estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved.

In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a “vital” (The Guardian) and “compelling” (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.

About the Author

Bruce Levine is the bestselling author of several books on the Civil War era, including The Fall of the House of Dixie and Confederate Emancipation, which received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and was named one of the top ten works of nonfiction of its year by The Washington Post. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois.