A fool's errand / by Albion W. Tourgee ; edited by John Hope Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.

Contributor:

Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009, editor.

Series:

John Harvard library

The John Harvard library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ku Klux Klan (19th century)--Fiction.

Ku Klux Klan (19th century).

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Fiction.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Southern States--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 404 pages ; 22 cm.

8vo.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961.

Summary:

A thinly veiled account of Judge Albion W. Tourgee's own career as a forceful advocate of civil rights was a bestseller in the 1880s and continues to occupy a place in the history of American literature. Judge Tourgee's reflections on the fundamental post- abolition problem of how to build a bridge from black emancipation to black equality provide readers with a clear picture of the South during the Reconstruction era. Presented as a work of fiction, this engaging and provocative work discusses Reconstruction and the many problems surrounding it.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Tourgée, Albion Winegar, 1838-1905. Fool's errand.

ISBN:

0674307518

9780674307513

OCLC:

276317