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Author Myers, John L.

Title Henry Wilson and the era of Reconstruction / John L. Myers
Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages)
Contents At war's end -- The break between Congress and Johnson -- Congress vs. the president -- The failure to impeach the president -- Republican policy endorsed -- Grant and new issues -- Republican party begins to divide -- Senate and party reconciler -- Election as vice-president -- The Slave Power in America -- The vice-president
Summary Already a leader of the Republican party when the Civil War began, Henry Wilson had distinguished himself as the most important Congressional figure on military and antislavery and pro-black legislation during the war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([237]-249) and index
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Subject Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875.
SUBJECT Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875 fast
Subject United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Biography
SUBJECT Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) fast
United States. Congress. Senate fast
Subject Legislators -- United States -- Biography
Vice-presidents -- United States -- Biography
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Legislators
Politics and government
Slavery -- Political aspects
Vice-presidents
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140443
Subject United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020740171
ISBN 9780761847434
076184743X