A Fool's Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781616402334)

Subtitled "A Novel of the South During Reconstruction," this 1879 bestseller, by a participant in that great social experiment, is the barely fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North Carolina after the Civil War. A champion of the poor and landless of any race, and a keen observer of the dilemmas facing uneducated Negroes in the postwar period, Tourg e offers us an important eyewitness account of one of the most tumultuous eras of American history, one that continues to influence the course of the American experiences of race and class to this day.

Author: Albion Winegar Tourgee
ISBN-10: 1616402334
ISBN-13: 9781616402334
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d