Milton Meltzer Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Marilyn Goldstein

Critical Essay by Marilyn Goldstein

[Thaddeus Stevens and the Fight for Negro Rights is a] timely, authoritative account of the career of a fanatical anti-slavery Congressman…. Stevens' intolerance and acid wit are presented sympathetically yet objectively. The documentary style is enlivened by quotations from leading political figures of the day…. A welcome book on a much neglected early "civil rights" crusader.

Marilyn Goldstein, in her review of "Thaddeus Stevens and the Fight for Negro Rights," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the March, 1967 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1967), Vol. 13, No. 7, March, 1967, p. 138.