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Bricks Without Straw, A Novel. By Albion W Tourgee, Author of "A Fool's Errand" etc. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. 1880. Believed to be first edition. 'A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, Bricks Without Straw offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgée, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina after the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgée worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina's racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and… Leer más

Boston, NY, Cincinnati, etc.: Various, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 11 volumes, plus a 12th, Dibble's 1921 study of Tourgee. 9 are either early or first editions, two are reprints. All very good with light wear, bookplate of previous owner, minor other wear. Murvale Eastman looks like it's in an early rebinding in cloth backed boards; An Outing with the Queen of Hearts has light library marks. The jacket to the reprint of Bricks Without Straw is very good with light soil and wear. Tourgee was a liberal lawyer, anti-Klan, pro-civil-rights, not afraid to wade into the culture wars of the time. This is by no means his complete works but is a goodly representation of him.