American Reconstruction 1865-1870; and the Impeachment of President Johnson
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, 1928. First Edition. 8vo, tan cloth in original dust jacket, black titling to spine, 300 pp. A study, by the future French premier, of the immediate post–Civil War period in the United States and submitted by Clemenceau as jounalism correspondence dispatches during his visit to the United States immediately following the US Civil War. Clemenceau's writing depicts the political struggle over Reconstruction policy, the rights of freed people, and the constitutionality surrounding Andrew Johnson’s 1868 impeachment. His dispatches were compiled and published posthumously in English in 1928 by editor Fernand Baldensperger in this first edition. Mild toning and offsetting to endpapers, library stamp to front pastedown and title page, staining to upper edge of front cover. Chipping (mainly a large chip to upper edge front panel), staining, and soiling to jacket, Item #14443
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