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Notes on Contributors viii <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part I Andrew Johnson 5</b></p> <p>1 Andrew Johnson before the Presidency 7<br /> <i>Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein</i></p> <p>2 Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction 24<br /> <i>Erik Mathisen</i></p> <p>3 Andrew Johnson: Race, the Constitution, and Democracy 42<br /> <i>Aaron Astor</i></p> <p>4 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 62<br /> <i>Luis Fuentes-Rohwer</i></p> <p>5 Foreign Affairs and Andrew Johnson 85<br /> <i>Richard Zuczek</i></p> <p><b>Part II Ulysses S. Grant 121</b></p> <p>6 Ulysses S. Grant: Birth to the Mexican–American War 123<br /> <i>Pamela K. Sanfilippo</i></p> <p>7 Ulysses S. Grant: Star on the Rise, 1861–1863 140<br /> <i>Brian Steel Wills</i></p> <p>8 Ulysses S. Grant: The Making of a Military Politician, 1861–1865 165<br /> <i>Brian Holden Reid</i></p> <p>9 The General-in-Chief, 1864–1865 188<br /> <i>William B. Feis</i></p> <p>10 Ulysses S. Grant Goes to Washington: The Commanding General as Secretary of War 214<br /> <i>James J. Broomall</i></p> <p>11 The 1868 and 1872 Elections 235<br /> <i>Andrew Prymak</i></p> <p>12 Looking for the Popular Culture of Grant’s America 257<br /> <i>Woody Register</i></p> <p>13 Reconstruction during the Grant Years: The Conundrum of Policy 275<br /> <i>Thomas R. Pegram</i></p> <p>14 Flames in the West: American Expansion, Federal Indian Policy, and the Transformation of Indigenous Lives in the Age of Grant 295<br /> <i>Eric J. Morser</i></p> <p>15 Avoiding War: The Foreign Policy of Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish 311<br /> <i>Stephen McCullough</i></p> <p>16 Grant and Historical Memory 328<br /> <i>John F. Marszalek</i></p> <p>17 Grant and Heroic Leadership 343<br /> <i>Frank J. Williams</i></p> <p>18 Engagement Rather Than Escape: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour, 1877–1879 353<br /> <i>William M. Ferraro</i></p> <p><b>Part III Rutherford B. Hayes 387</b></p> <p>19 Crushing the Traitors: Rutherford B. Hayes in the Civil War 389<br /> <i>John R. Lundberg</i></p> <p>20 Rutherford B. Hayes: The Road to the White House 403<br /> <i>Allan Peskin</i></p> <p>21 Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877 415<br /> <i>Marc-William Palen</i></p> <p>22 Hayes and Civil Service Reform 431<br /> <i>Ari Hoogenboom</i></p> <p>23 The Shattered Dream: The Shock of Industrialization and the Crisis of the Free Labor Ideal 452<br /> <i>Eric Leif Davin</i></p> <p>24 Lifting the Veil of Obscurity?: Lucy Webb Hayes, America’s First “First Lady” 475<br /> <i>Katherine E. Rohrer</i></p> <p><b>Part IV The Age of Reconstruction 497</b></p> <p>25 Edison and the Age of Invention 499<br /> <i>David Hochfelder</i></p> <p>26 Centennial Celebrations 517<br /> <i>John Hepp</i></p> <p>27 Community Responsibilities, Citizenship Rights: Gender and Power in the Reconstruction Era 538<br /> <i>Michelle Kuhl</i></p> <p>28 Playing on a New Field: The U.S. Supreme Court in Reconstruction 562<br /> <i>Roman J. Hoyos</i></p> <p>29 Scandal, Corruption 581<br /> <i>Robert W. Burg</i></p> <p>30 Ex-Presidents in the Age of Reconstruction 601<br /> <i>Edward O. Frantz</i></p> <p>Index 617</p>

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<p><b>Edward Frantz</b> is Associate Professor of History at the University of Indianapolis. He is the author of <i>The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933</i> (2011). </p>

<p><i>A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents</i> presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Chapters feature analyses of each president individually as well as taking a comparative look at their time in office. Key topics include these presidents’ political careers; foreign policy; domestic policy; military history; and social context. Featuring contributions from presidential scholars and leading historians, essays represent a dedicated, systematic study that fills an important void in scholarship while revealing a wealth of insights into issues of presidential leadership during this watershed moment in American history.</p>

<p>“Edward Frantz has gathered a wide-ranging group of experts who thoroughly cover the lives and overlapping administrations of the three so-called "Reconstruction Presidents." Often dismissed or disdained, Johnson, Grant, and Hayes emerge from these lively and up-to-date essays not only as crucial figures deserving of serious scholarly scrutiny and reassessment, but also as engagingly human representatives of a turbulent era. A splendid and worthwhile historiographical resource!”<br /> —<i><b>Joan Waugh</b>, UCLA</i></p> <p>“This most valuable collection of essays by renowned experts offers an insightful survey of the scholarship covering the lives of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes, three men who helped secure military victory in the American Civil War and who as presidents did much to shape the reconstructed American republic that emerged from that conflict.”<br /> —<i><b>Brooks Simpson</b>, Arizona State University</i></p> <p>“Distinguished historians Ari Hoogenboom, John Marzsalek, and Alan Peskin, and other rising scholars offer useful essays on the presidents and an array of other topics central to this pivotal period.”<br /> —<i><b>Charles W. Calhoun</b>, East Carolina University</i></p>

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