Robert S. Levine, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, is general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Awarded Guggenheim and NEH Senior Fellowships, he is author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass, among other works. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham L... SEE MORE