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Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy

Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy

Boutwell, Jeffrey

Hardcover

Historical FiguresPolitical Biographies19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $39.99

ISBN10: 1324074264
ISBN13: 9781324074267
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jan 21 2025
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to redeem America's promise of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 1840 to 1905, Boutwell was at the center of efforts to abolish slavery, establish the Republican Party, assist President Lincoln in funding the Union war effort, facilitate Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, impeach President Andrew Johnson, and frame and enact the Fourteenth and Fifteenth civil rights amendments. He helped lay the foundations of the modern American economy with President Grant, investigated white terrorism in Mississippi in the 1870s, and opposed American imperialism following the Spanish-American War alongside Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and Booker T. Washington. The son of a Massachusetts farming family of modest means, George Boutwell would do battle during his career with American political royalty, including Henry Cabot Lodge and Teddy Roosevelt.

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