Ebook {Epub PDF} A Fools Errand by Albion W. Tourgée

Written by a carpetbagger following fourteen trying years () in the South, A Fool's Errand not only reveals the thoughts of a carpetbagger on southern Reconstruction, but it remains one of the more perceptive descriptions of that puzzling fiasco as well as an enjoyable fictional tale. Professor Franklin's introductory vignette satisfactorily establishes the author's identity and the historical and ideological Brand: Albion W. Tourgee. Tourgée's novel, originally published in anonymously as A Fool's Errand, By One of the Fools, is not strictly autobiographical, though it draws on Tourgée's own experiences in the South. In 5/5(1). Albion W. Tourgee, A Fool’s Errand () 1. Albion Winegar Tourgee, a descendant of French and Swiss immigrants, was born on a farm in Ohio in the Jacksonian era. He had worked as a school teacher and was a student at Rochester University when he joined the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was severely wounded in battle and spent.

—Albion Tourgée, A Fool's Errand A Fool's Errand, by Albion Tourgée, is just that which he describes: a history of the world's thought unfolded alongside the history of the world's outer happenings. It belongs to the genre of Reconstruction novels and explores in great depth the timeline of. Albion W. Tourgée was born in Williamsfield, Ohio, in , attended the University of Rochester, and saw intermittent action () in the Union Army during the Civil Way. A Fool's Errand is a significant and unusually original portrayal, criticism, and analysis of postwar southern society it also offers excitement, idealism. A Fool's Errand Quotes Showing of 2. "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.

Tourgée's novel, originally published in anonymously as A Fool's Errand, By One of the Fools, is not strictly autobiographical, though it draws on Tourgée's own experiences in the South. In. Now best known for representing Homer Plessy in the Plessy vs Ferguson civil rights case, Albion Tourgee was also the author of a dozen or so novels. A Fool's Errand, his first bestseller, is based on his own (and several other's) experience as "carpet-baggers," northerners who settled in the South after the Civil War. His novel, A Fool's Errand, provides a fascinating and often disturbing look at the racial animus in the South during Reconstruction. Written in and loosely autobiographical, it relays the story of a union officer, Comfort Servose, who moves to the South shortly after t.