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Revisiting the story of the South's most perfect scalawag, Ginsberg contributes to a broader understanding of the essential role southern Jews played during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Moses of South Carolina is a welcome and long overdue reappraisal of the firebrand governor... There is much to recommend Ginsberg's work. The author makes the Byzantine politics of the period understandable. His discussion of Moses's marginality, the politics of corruption, the economy, and land reform in the state is compelling, intriguing, and audacious. -- Edmund L. Drago Civil War Book Review 2010 Historians of Reconstruction should applaud the fact that someone has at last taken the trouble to draw scholarly attention to such an important and little-understood figure. -- Bruce E. Baker Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010

Table of Contents

Preface
1. A Southern Moses
2. The Making of a Scalawag
3. Reinventing South Carolina's Government
4. Speaker Moses
5. Governor Moses
6. Exiled from the Promised Land
Coda
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 07/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780801894640, 978-0801894640
      ISBN10: 0801894646
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revisiting the story of the South's most perfect scalawag, Ginsberg contributes to a broader understanding of the essential role southern Jews played during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

      Trade Review
      Moses of South Carolina is a welcome and long overdue reappraisal of the firebrand governor... There is much to recommend Ginsberg's work. The author makes the Byzantine politics of the period understandable. His discussion of Moses's marginality, the politics of corruption, the economy, and land reform in the state is compelling, intriguing, and audacious. -- Edmund L. Drago Civil War Book Review 2010 Historians of Reconstruction should applaud the fact that someone has at last taken the trouble to draw scholarly attention to such an important and little-understood figure. -- Bruce E. Baker Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. A Southern Moses
      2. The Making of a Scalawag
      3. Reinventing South Carolina's Government
      4. Speaker Moses
      5. Governor Moses
      6. Exiled from the Promised Land
      Coda
      Notes
      Index

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