The Doom of ReconstructionIn the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class based radical reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption,