ECW reviews The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips
Jan 23rd, 2025Emerging Civil War reviews The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law by Peter Charles Hoffer.
“Hoffer’s research in The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips is thorough, his arguments are well-argued, and his interpretation of Phillips’s importance in American history will have more students of the Civil War-era reevaluating his unfortunately shadowed role among period abolitionists.”—Tim Talbot for ECW