In the decades immediately following the Civil War; the United States expanded rapidly. As the nation grew; so too did federal law; moving into areas of citizensOCO lives previously regulated by local custom and state and territorial statutes.In Mormons and Cowboys; Moonshiners and Klansmen; Cresswell uses then moves beyond a case-study approach to illuminate larger questions including the evolution of the American criminal justice system; the relationship of the South and the West to the rest of the nation; the workings of the 19th-century American bureaucracy; and conflict of the local; state; and federal governments. Out of the efforts of early federal marshals came the modern federal justice system; with its firm policy guidelines; its Federal Bureau of Investigation; and its broader powers over the country as a whole."
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great read!By Chevellathis offered a very good summation of the post segregation era - the thoughts; the plans; the pitfalls - very clear and powerful. Adolph Reed is an awesome thinker; prolific writer; offering thoughts that should be examined in every Political Science class . . . and possibly by graduate students entering education; politics; law; and other disciplines that require critical thought and racial consciousness.9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Clean out the cobwebs in your headBy mountain viewerReed is one of the most acute; fearless and useful commentators on American politics and intellectual history. I rarely agree with everything he says (I tend to give more play to identity politics and see more value in culture; esp. popular culture); but no one can make me question my own take on a subject as assiduously as Reed. For my purposes this volume is not quite at the same level as Class Notes or his masterpiece on WEB DuBois; but for those with an interest in urban development/planning it is definitive (though see also the new volume on post-Katrina New Orleans). The chapter on the Malcolm X revival of the early 1990s was enjoyable for someone who lived through it and gives Reed an excuse to provide a nutshell version of his take on post-1963 African American politics and rehash his critique of Jesse Jackson. But it also gives him a chance to show off his old-codger dismissal of hip hop. Oh well--no one is perfect.
