Mass Pardons in America : : Rebellion, Presidential Amnesty, and Reconciliation /

Mass Pardons in America : : Rebellion, Presidential Amnesty, and Reconciliation / / Graham Dodds.

Again and again in the nation’s history, presidents of the United States have faced the dramatic challenge of domestic insurrection and sought ways to reconcile with the rebels afterward. This book is the first comprehensive study of how presidential mass pardons have helped put such conflicts to re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Dodds, Graham,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 MASS PARDONS IN HISTORY, LAW, AND POLITICS
  • 2 PENNSYLVANIA INSURRECTIONS IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY George Washington and John Adams
  • 3 MORMON RESISTANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY James Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison, and Grover Cleveland
  • 4 THE CIVIL WAR Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
  • 5 VIETNAM WAR RESISTERS Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
  • CONCLUSION
  • EPILOGUE
  • APPENDIX OTHER MASS PARDONS AND AMNESTIES IN THE UNITED STATES
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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