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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 5779. Thaddeus Stevens Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, by Bruce Levine (read 5 Feb 2022) This is a 2021 biography of the Congressman from Pennsylvania who was probably the most radical person in Congress in the days right after the Civil War and I read it because earlier biographies of him were affected by the tendency to deprecate the more advanced favorable attitude to Reconstruction now in vogue. And the book does say good things about Stevens and only mentions once his supposed Black mistress and questions the evidence for such a relationship to her. The book rightly points out that Stevens' attitude to Black rights was essentially right in today's view.. He was avid in his disapproval of Andrew Johnson and was one of the House managers for his impeachment though by the time of the trial he had to be carried to the Senate for the trial. He died in August of 1868. I did not find the book much fun to read, and it spent little time on Stevens's personal life and spent much time on the issues with which he was concerned. I have read many better biographies.. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of 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), "compelling" (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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And a quote that could be taken out of today's headlines, author Bruce Levine says Thaddeus Stevens came to recognize "...extreme economic inequality as a threat to democracy". In 1865, Stevens himself said "It is impossible that any practical equality of rights can exist where a few thousand men monopolize the whole landed property". Hmm...
At 300 pages, a short book, but very interesting and very appropriate in these troubled times. ( )