Well-Nigh Reconstructed: A Political Novel (Appalachian Echoes)

by Brinsley Matthews (Author), PaulD.Yandle (Introduction)

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  2010

  $32.80

  In 1882, William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel excoriating the societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant's bid for the presidency.