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Title: A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner ISBN: 0-06-096431-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 10 January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost as good as the longer version
Comment: This book covers reconstruction in very thorough way. It gives some insight into current issue such as reparations. A good intro history.
Rating: 5
Summary: A promising period with tragic results
Comment: I have never read Foner's longer treatment of this tragic period in American history, "Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution," but this abridgement gives an exellent overview of the subject. Foner debunks the theory that the "Radical Republicans" were the bad guys and the Andrew Johnson was a moderate acting in the spirit of Lincoln. In fact, there was very little progress in restoring rights to freedmen during the first year or two after the Civil War under Johnson's "moderate" approach. In fact, Johnson, while a firm supporter of the Union during the war was, in his views towards blacks, a racist as demonstrated by statemnets Johnson made and which this book documents. It was only after the "Radicals" forced federal intervention that blacks made significant progress. Unfortunately, Democrats began to make headway in the South, often by the use of intimidation and violence, and what remained of the Republican party began to change it's agenda. Certainly, the Republicans in the North became indifferent, culminating in President Rutherford B. Hayes' abandonment of Reconstruction after his narrow victory over Samuel Tilden in the 1876 election. This book is illumi\nating and well written. Although an abridgement, it reads smoothly rather than as a patchwork. I recommend this book to all who are interested in this underemphasized period of American history
Rating: 5
Summary: A U.S. History classic
Comment: Readers looking for the roots of difficulties that still plague the U.S. will find the perfect precis in A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RECONSTRUCTION. Civil rights freed of racial or gender limitations, race relations, states' rights versus federal laws, the rise of financial and business trusts, the foundations for all these "modern" issues are succinctly excavated and eloquently put on display by Foner in this great book. Should be required reading. Bravo!
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Title: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0195124995 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War by Eric Foner ISBN: 0195094972 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES) by James M. McPherson ISBN: 019516895X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust ISBN: 0679781048 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War by Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber, James M. McPherson ISBN: 0195080343 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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