Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Eric Foner, Eric Foner

Harper & Row, 1988 - History - 690 pages

Winner of the 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Bancroft Prize, The Parkman Prize, The Avery O. Craven Prize, and The TriIling Prize Nominated for the 1988 National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award

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User Review  - jordanjones - LibraryThing

This is by far the best and most influential book on a critical period that has been politically interpreted and reinterpreted several times. Foner has the goods. He's done the research and shows how ...

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User Review  - busterrll - LibraryThing

Good book but hard reading Wish I had a better knowledge of reconstruction politics. Spot read after a bit, but full of information. Will save and try to reread after reading more on Pres.Johnson.

Contents

• 1 The World the War Made: 1
• Rehearsals for Reconstruction: 35
• of the War: 60

About the author

Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize.

Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877; New American nation series; Page 1453 of Perennial library; Vinson Collection
• Authors: DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Eric Foner, Eric Foner
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Harper & Row, 1988
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jan 13, 2010
• ISBN: 0060158514, 9780060158514
• Length: 690 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)