TOURGEE ALBION W. - A Fool's Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction

Harper Torchbooks, 1960. Trade Paperback. In Good- condition, tightly bound and unmarked, heavy wear to the cover edges and spine hinges. " This 1879 bestseller, by a participant in that great social experiment, is the barely fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North Carolina after the Civil War. A champion of the poor and landless of any race, and a keen observer of the dilemmas facing uneducated Negroes in the postwar period, Tourgee offers us an important eyewitness account of one of the most tumultuous eras of American history." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 404 pages. Good .