Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-293) and index.
Contents:
Rehearsal in Missouri for the Liberal Republican Movement, 1865-1870 -- The Liberal Republican Conception of Party, 1848-1872 -- Preserving the Republic while defeating the slave power, 1848-1865 -- The Liberal Republican dilemma over reconstruction, 1865-1868 -- Legacies of the Civil War threaten the Republic, 1865-1872 -- Grant and the republic, 1868-1872 -- The national phase of the Liberal Republican Movement, 1870-1872 -- The experience of a third party in the nineteenth century -- The lasting effect of 1872 campaign rhetoric -- The Liberal Republicans try again, 1872-1876.
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