Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Lemann, Nicholas

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374530693)

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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Lemann, Nicholas

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

$20.00
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Lemann, Nicholas

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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"An arresting piece of popular history." --Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review

Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.

Author: Nicholas Lemann
ISBN-10: 0374530696
ISBN-13: 9780374530693
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2007
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/07/2007 pg. 40
By Nicholas Lemann
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Nicholas Lemann, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is author of The Big Test (FSG, 1999) and the prizewinning The Promised Land. He lives with his family in Pelham, New York.

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