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050 00 $aKF4558 14th$b.M34 2013
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100 1 $aMagliocca, Gerard N.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAmerican founding son :$bJohn Bingham and the invention of the Fourteenth Amendment /$cGerard N. Magliocca.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c[2013]
300 $ax, 295 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : measuring a man -- Group think -- Franklin College -- Lawyer and whig -- Republican congressman -- And the war came -- The trial of the century -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- Reconstruction and impeachment -- Farewell to Washington -- Ambassador -- Obscurity -- Conclusion : legacy.
520 $aOverview: John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. And more than any other man, Bingham played the key role in shaping the Union's policy towards the occupied ex-Confederate States, with consequences that still haunt our politics. American Founding Son provides the most complete portrait yet of this remarkable statesman. Drawing on his personal letters and speeches, the book traces Bingham's life from his humble roots in Pennsylvania through his career as a leader of the Republican Party. Gerard N. Magliocca argues that Bingham and his congressional colleagues transformed the Constitution that the Founding Fathers created, and did so with the same ingenuity that their forbears used to create a more perfect union in the 1780s. In this book, Magliocca restores Bingham to his rightful place as one of our great leaders.
600 10 $aBingham, John Armor,$d1815-1900.
610 10 $aUnited States.$tConstitution.$n14th Amendment$xLegislative history.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xLegislative history.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEquality before the law$zUnited States.
700 1 $aBingham, John Armor,$d1815-1900.
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