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Probably one of the most controversial numbers in 19th-century American background, Thaddeus Stevens is most beneficial remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long decorated by historians as a vindictive "dictator of Congress", out to punish the South at the behest of big business and his own ego, Stevens gets a more healthy treatment in Hans L. Trefousse's biography, which portrays him as an impassioned orator and a leader in the have difficulties against slavery. Trefousse traces Stevens' job through its major phases, from his days and nights in the Pennsylvania condition legislature, when he antagonized Freemasons, slaveholders, and Jacksonian Democrats, to his politics engagement during Reconstruction, when he helped creator the 14th Amendment and spurred on the passage of the Reconstruction Works and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Throughout, Trefousse explores the motivations for Stevens' lifelong commitment to racial equality, thus furnishing a fuller family portrait of the person whose fervent opposition to slavery helped move his more modest congressional co-workers toward the execution of egalitarian policies.
