Author: OLSEN, Otto H.
Title: Carpetbagger's Crusade: The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgee
Description: Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiv, 395pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Inscribed by Olsen. First edition, with presentation inscription from the author on the front flyleaf: "Congratulations to / Kathleen on winning / the / Dean's award and / her undergraduate degree in history. / With affection, / Otto H Olsen / Chair, Department of History N.I.U. / May 10, 1986." Interesting biography of this Union veteran whose battle against segregation was defeated in the famous case "Plessy v. Ferguson. .

Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War


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