Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of Thaddeus Stevens-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...