Redemption - by Nicholas Lemann (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Brilliant . . . "Redemption" is accessible and important, and we cannot really understand race or political power in modern America without understanding what happened in the South a decade after Appomattox. -Jon Meacham, "Washington Monthly."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"An arresting piece of popular history." --Sean Wilentz, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><b></b></p><p>Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. <i>Redemption</i> is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[A] brilliant new book . . . <i>Redemption</i> is accessible and important, and we cannot really understand race or political power in modern America without understanding what happened in the South a decade after Appomattox." --<i>Jon Meacham, Washington Monthly</i></p><p>"Lemann . . . has told this sad, heartbreaking story with passion and authority. He does not tar all whites with the brush of racism or violence, and he does not excuse Reconstruction its excesses and mistakes." --<i>Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World</i></p><p>"Lemann performs a sterling service in excavating these hidden ruins, and <i>Redemption</i> is a superb, supple work of popular narrative history backed up by sound archival evidence." --<i>Alexander Rose, The New York Observer</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Nicholas Lemann</b>, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is author of <i>The Big Test</i> (FSG, 1999) and the prizewinning <i>The Promised Land</i>. He lives with his family in Pelham, New York.</p>
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