From Publishers Weekly
With the Confederacy's defeat, Reconstruction seemed like the dawn of a new era to blacks and progressive whites, but it was not to be. "This invaluable, definitive history re-creates the post-Civil War period as a pivotal drama in which ordinary people get equal billing with politicians and wheelers and dealers," praised PW .
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Product Description
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it wa