A FOOL'S ERRAND & BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW (Annotated)

A Fool's Errand and Bricks Without Straw are among the most important fictional reckonings with Reconstruction, combining realist observation, political argument, and moral satire. Tourgée depicts the postwar South not as a reconciled pastoral region but as a battleground over citizenship, labor, education, and racial justice. His prose is direct, documentary, and polemical, using narrative to exp...