{"product_id":"carpetbaggers-crusade-9781421430553","title":"Carpetbaggers Crusade","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1965. The Supreme Court's momentous school desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion Tourgee. Just fifty-eight years earlier this once-famous carpetbagger's attack on segregation was crushed in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. His legal defeat in 1896 typified his frustrated but prophetic career. Tourgee was an idealistic Union veteran who ventured south in 1865. As an advocate of civil rights, political equality, free schools, and penal reform, he was elected to North Carolina's Constitutional Convention of 1868. Olsen records both the fierce struggles and the impressive accomplishments that filled Tourgee's fourteen years in the South. With the collapse of the Southern experiment, Tourgee was inspired to turn to fiction to express his convictions. A Fool's Errand by One of the Fools and Bricks without Straw were classics of their day, providing absorbing accounts and defenses of radical Reconstruction. In 1879 Tourgee went north, where \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. A Yankee Youth\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Liberty, Union, and War\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. South to Emancipation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. White Man's Politics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Entering the Vortex\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. For the Straitest Sect\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. A Maverick Republican\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Campaigning for Reconstruction – 1867\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Reconstruction Convention of 1868\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Continued Triumph\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. A Code Commissioner \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. A Carpetbagger Judge and the Ku Klux Klan\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Klan and Republican Collapse\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Portrait of a Carpetbagger\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. A Tale of Redemption\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Tourgée and the Settlement of 1875\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. The Final Blows\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18.\u003ci\u003e A Fool's Errand By One of the Fools\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. \"Let There Be Light\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. The \u003ci\u003eContinent\u003c\/i\u003e Disaster \u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Recovering at Thorheim\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. The Bystander\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. Commitment Deferred\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. The National Citizens Rights Association\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. Last Errands – \u003ci\u003eThe Basis\u003c\/i\u003e and Bordeaux\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130122071,"sku":"9781421430553","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/carpetbaggers-crusade-9781421430553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}