A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th
century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight
against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to
America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War
as an opportunity for a second American revolution--a chance to
remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of
the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to
the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party's radical
wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long
before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These
policies--including welcoming black men into the Union's
armies--would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the
Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and
political rights for Black Americans--rights eventually embodied in
the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed
his party--and America--towards equality, he also championed ideas
too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as
confiscating large slaveholders' estates and dividing the land
among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed
historian Bruce Levine has written a "vital" (The Guardian),
"compelling" (James McPherson) biography of one of the most
visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion
for racial justice in America.
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