State of the Union Addresses Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and Federal Power in Post-Civil War Presidential Messages
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
96
Maße (L/B/H)
0,5/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
153 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-9792-4
Gathering the annual messages delivered during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency, State of the Union Addresses charts the urgent business of Reconstruction America: civil rights enforcement, Southern readmission, federal finance, Indian policy, foreign affairs, and the unsettled meaning of Union victory. Its prose is executive rather than ornamental-plain, procedural, and morally direct-yet it belongs to the central literature of postwar nation-building, where constitutional principle meets administrative detail. Grant wrote as the victorious Union general turned president, a man whose authority rested on battlefield command and whose political education was shaped by emancipation, secession, and the frailty of restored peace. His addresses reveal both his strengths and limitations: a commitment to national integrity and Black citizenship, a soldier's impatience with disorder, and a reformer's faith in federal power, even amid corruption and partisan exhaustion. Readers interested in American political thought, Reconstruction, or presidential rhetoric will find this collection indispensable. It is not a memoir but a record of governance under pressure, illuminating how a contested republic tried to define justice after civil war. Read attentively, these addresses show Grant as a practical statesman confronting the unfinished work of freedom.
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