Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-331) and index.
Contents:
Index. Introduction -- 10. Regeneration of a nation -- 2. Republicanism contested : the election of 1872 -- 3. The Republican project under siege : the Grant administration and the trial of enforcement -- 4. The southern question revived : the campaign of 1876 -- 5. Rescuing the republic : the electoral crisis of 1876-1877 -- 6. Conciliation is not mutual : republicanism and the southern policy of Rutherford B. Hayes -- 7. Confrontation with a solid south : new directions under Garfield and Arthur -- 8. The fundamental question in a republic : republicanism, economics, and electoral stalemate in the 1880s -- 9. Republicanism defeated : the Lodge Federal Elections Bill -- 10. Surrender of the new republic : Reconstruction undone and the nationalism of reconciliation -- Notes -- Index.
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