Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War - Softcover

Lemann, Nicholas

 
9780374530693: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374530696 ISBN 13: 9780374530693
Verlag: FSG Adult, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

"An arresting piece of popular history." -Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review


Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.

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Nicholas Lemann, born in New Orleans in 1954, began his journalistic career there and then worked at Washington Monthly, Washington Post, and Texas Monthly, of which he was executive editor. A frequent contributor to national magazines, he was national correspondent of The Atlantic Monthly and is now a staff writer at The New Yorker. His books include the prizewinning The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991).

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Verlag
FSG Adult
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374530696
ISBN 13 
9780374530693
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
274
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