Citation

DeGruccio M. New Engl. Q. 2008; 81(4): 636-675.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, MIT Press)

DOI

10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.636

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This narrative about Charles Francis Adams Jr. sheds light on the intersections among manhood, race, failure, and self-making in the Civil War era. Adams's obsession with the plight of blacks was entangled with his own confusion about white men's control over their destinies-that is, about who properly qualified for membership in a “republic of ‘self-made men.’”