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A History of the American People, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
A History of the American People Vol 5 - Classic Reprint Author:Woodrow Wilson MR. LINCOLN'S death made Mr. Johnson President. The first tasks of peace were to be hardly less difficult than the tasks of war had been; and the party which had triumphed was left without executive leadership at their very beginning. Mr. Johnson was a man who, like Mr. Lincoln himself, had risen from very humble origins to posts of trust and di... more »stinction; but his coarse fibre had taken no polish, no refinelllent in the process. He stopped neither to understand nor to persuade other men, but struck forward with crude, uncompromising force for his object, attempting lllaster~' without wisdom or moderation. Wisdom of no common order was called for in the tasks immediately before him. What effect had the war wrought upon the federal system? What was now the status of the States which had attempted secession and been brought to terms by two million armed men sent into the
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER; 1 HECONSTRUCTION • • • • •; JI RETURN TO NOHllAL CONDITIONS; III THE END OF A CENTURY; INDEX ; PAGE; lIS; Ig8; 301
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