The Road to Redemption
Southern Politics, 1869-1879
By Michael Perman
368 pp., 6.125 x 9.25
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4141-9
Published: July 1985 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7451-1
Published: January 2004 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-6404-3
Published: January 2004
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Awards & distinctions
1985 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
1985 V. O. Key Jr. Award, Southern Political Science Association
In the first section of Road to Redemption, Perman offers a provocative and original analysis of the characteristics and priorities of the two parties, explaining how the South's untried and volatile party system operated during Reconstruction. By the mid-1870s this system had begun to collapse. The book's concluding section explains how and why the Republican party and Reconstruction were overthrown and describes the Democratic ascendancy that replaced them.
Perman's innovative study integrates the history of Reconstruction and Redemption and challenges the prevailing interpretation of who the Redeemers were and how they rose to power.
About the Author
Michael Perman is research professor in the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written or edited seven books in American history, including Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 and Emancipation and Reconstruction. He has also held a Guggenheim Fellowship and won three book prizes.
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