Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Lemann, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0374248559 / ISBN 13: 9780374248550

Editore: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006

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Signed and dated (October 2006) by the author on the title page. Codice articolo 003414

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Titolo: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

Casa editrice: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: As New

Condizione sovraccoperta: As New

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: First Printing

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Riassunto:

Beginning with an in-depth account of a murderous 1873 attack by a white militia of Confederate vigilantes on the black community of Colfax, Louisiana, a study of the campaign of organized racial violence that followed the Civil War describes efforts on the part of white Southern Democrats to prevent the rise of black political power. 75,000 first printing.

L'autore:

Nicholas Lemann, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is the author of The Big Test (FSG, 1999) and the prizewinning The Promised Land. He lives with his family in Pelham, New York.