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Book-Burning Whitewash Thaddeus Stevens: A Being Darkly Wise and Rudely Great. by Ralph Korngold. 460 pp. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. $6.00

Mr. Ralph Korngold’s frankly partisan biography of Thaddeus Stevens concentrates heavily upon the period from 1860 to 1868, when Stevens came into conflict with Lincoln and led the Radical faction of the Republican Party into a sweeping repudiation of Lincoln’s “moderate” policy for reconstructing the defeated South.

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Book-Burning Whitewash Thaddeus Stevens: A Being Darkly Wise and Rudely Great. by Ralph Korngold. 460 pp. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. $6.00

Mr. Ralph Korngold’s frankly partisan biography of Thaddeus Stevens concentrates heavily upon the period from 1860 to 1868, when Stevens came into conflict with Lincoln and led the Radical faction of the Republican Party into a sweeping repudiation of Lincoln’s “moderate” policy for reconstructing the defeated South.