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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780452290167
“If ‘Profiles in Courage’ had not already been taken, it would
have made the perfect title for this linked set of portraits
honoring five men who risked everything to fight for the principles
that had cost so many lives.”
—The New York Times
A gripping look at terrorist violence during the
Reconstruction era
Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to
establish new state governments that fully represented both black
and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments
was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and
their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. Drawing on
original letters and diaries as well as published racist diatribes
of the time, acclaimed historian Stephen Budiansky concentrates his
vivid, fast paced narrative on the efforts of five heroic men—two
Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and
a former slave—who showed remarkable idealism and courage as they
struggled to establish a “New South” in the face of overwhelming
hatred and organized resistance. The Bloody Shirt sheds new
light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of
Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American
history.
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