{"product_id":"undaunted-radical-mark-elliott-9780807135938","title":"Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourg馥","description":"\u003cp\u003eA leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourg e (1838-1905) served as the most articulate spokesman of the radical wing of the Republican party, and he continued to advocate for its egalitarian ideals long after Reconstruction ended. \u003ci\u003eUndaunted Radical\u003c\/i\u003e presents Tourg e's most significant letters, speeches, and essays from the commencement of Radical Reconstruction through the bleak days of the era of Jim Crow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An Ohioan by birth, Tourg e served in the Union army and afterwards moved to North Carolina, where he helped draft the 1868 state constitution. Within that and other documents he proposed free public education, the abolition of whipping posts, the end of property qualifications for jury duty and office holding, and the initiation of judicial reform and uniform taxation. Tourg e also served as a Republican-installed superior court judge, a position that brought him into increasing conflict with the Ku Klux Klan. In 1879, he published \u003ci\u003eA Fool's Errand, \u003c\/i\u003e a bestselling novel based on his Reconstruction experiences. Although now often overlooked, Tourg e in his lifetime offered a prominent voice of reason amid the segregation, disenfranchisement, lynching, racial propaganda, and mythologies about African Americans that haunted Reconstruction-era society and Gilded Age politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These thirty-four documents elaborate the reformer's opinions on the Reconstruction Amendments, his generation's racial and economic theories, the cultural politics of North-South reconciliation, the ethics of corporate capitalism, the Social Gospel movement, and the philosophical underpinnings of American democratic citizenship. Mark Elliott and John David Smith, among the foremost authorities on Tourg e, have brought these writings, including the previously unpublished oral arguments Tourg e delivered before the U.S. Supreme Court as Homer Plessy's lead attorney in \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), together in one volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book also includes an introductory overview of Tourg e's life and an exhaustive bibliography of Tourg e's writings and related works, providing an essential collection for anyone studying Reconstruction and the early civil rights movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Elliott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807135933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807135938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2010","brand":"Mark Elliott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181098397951,"sku":"9780807135938","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70bf71cc-61f9-4f1b-9238-506ddfab421b.jpg?v=1690258546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/undaunted-radical-mark-elliott-9780807135938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}