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Albion W. Tourgée

Born

in Williamsfield, The United States

May 02, 1838

Died

May 21, 1905

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Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Wounded in the Civil War, he relocated to North Carolina afterward, where he became involved in Reconstruction activities. He served in the constitutional convention and later in the state legislature. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, and founded Bennett College as a normal school for freedmen in North Carolina (it has been a women's college since 1926). ...more

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	A Fool’s Errand 3.63 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1878 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bricks Without Straw: A Novel by Albion W. Tourgée, Otto H. Olsen (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1880	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of a Thousand (Civil War in the North) by Albion W. Tourgée, Peter Luebke (Editor) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invisible Empire: A Concise Review of the Epoch 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figs and Thistles: A Romance of the Western Reserve 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1879 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fool's Errand & Bricks Without Straw: The Classics Which Condemned the Terrorism of Ku Klux Klan and Fought for Preventing the Southern Hate Violence 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée by Albion W. Tourgée (Editor), John David Smith (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pactolus Prime it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1890 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Outing: The Queen of Hearts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1894 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1896 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind—the trifling, jesting buffoon—but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.”
― Albion Winegar Tourgée, A Fool's Errand: By One of the Fools

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“The failure of what we called Reconstruction hurt him mighty bad, an', to my mind, hed more ter du with takin' him off than the fever. That's why he hed that line put on his tombstone. What is it? Let me git out my glasses, child, and I'll read it for ye: - 'He followed the counsel of the Wise, And became a Fool thereby.'
What does it mean? I'm not jest sure that I rightly know, son; but it was one of his notions that he'd been fooled, along with the rest of us, by tryin' to work up to the marks of men that only half-knew what sort of a job they were layin' out. He was a good man, according to my notion, and an earnest one; but--somehow it seemed as if his ideas wa'n't calkilated for this meridian.”
― Albion W. Tourgée, A Fool’s Errand

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