The Era of Good Stealings
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Who, thinking of Reconstruction, fails to think of corruption? The Grant administration and the Great Barbecue remain inseparable in our minds. In his first book, The Plundering Generation, Mark W. Summers dealt with corruption and the breakdown of ethics in public life from 1849 to 1861. Now in a study of the post-Civil War years, he examines the aftermath of the war, when abuses of the public trust were all the fashion, from grafting South Carolina...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:019507503X
ISBN13:9780195075038
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:408 Pages
Weight:1.98 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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