- Author, Speaker, Historian -
Jeffrey Boutwell
Forthcoming from W. W. Norton in January 2025
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Redeeming America's Promise: George S. Boutwell and the Politics of Race, Money and Power

Redeeming America’s Promise:
George S. Boutwell and the Politics of Race, Money and Power, 1818 - 1905
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© Jeffrey H. Boutwell, Ph.D.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface
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List of Illustrations and Maps
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Introduction: The Past as Prologue
Section One: From Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., 1818-1860
Chapter 1: The Young Mr. Boutwell
Chapter 2: Rising Star in Massachusetts Politics
Chapter 3: Governor of Massachusetts
Chapter 4: Birth of the Republican Party
Section Two: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, 1860-1865
Chapter 5: Organizing for War
Chapter 6: Financing the War
Chapter 7: The Promise of Emancipation
Section Three: Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction Struggles, 1865-1868
Chapter 8: Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment
Chapter 9: Impeaching the President
Chapter 10: The 1868 Election and The Fifteenth Amendment
Section Four: Ulysses Grant and America’s Troubled Rebirth, 1868-1885
Chapter 11: Managing America’s Economy
Chapter 12: The General and the Governor
Chapter 13: The Most Trusted Cabinet Member
Chapter 14: Reconstruction Dying
Chapter 15: With Grant to the End
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Section Five: Theodore Roosevelt and America Abroad, 1885-1905
Chapter 16: The Annexation of Hawaii and the Spanish-American War
Chapter 17: Republic or Empire?
Chapter 18: Imperialism and a “New” Emancipation Proclamation
Epilogue
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Acknowledgements
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Select Bibliography
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Endnotes
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Index