Reconstruction

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

By: Eric Foner

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America.

Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, Black and White, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. He provides fresh insights on a host of other issues, including the ways in which the emancipated slave's quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; Abraham Lincoln's attitude toward Reconstruction; the role of "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"; and the role of violence in the period.

This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period, an era whose legacy reverberates in the United States to this day.

©1988 Eric Foner (P)1990 Blackstone Audio

Informative!

The Reconstruction book provided me with the America history lesson that should have been taught in school. This book in an Informative and necessary read.

Excellent history that High School failed to teach

Realized that I didn't learn much about reconstruction in High School beyond carpet baggers & scalawags. Foner does a great job cover the whole of reconstruction & it's ultimate failure to extend universal suffrage to the new freedmen.

An Amazing History

This book puts togather the historical context that has founds the last 150 years of american history. A must listen for those interested in sociatal structures and black rights

required reading for any American

This is an extremely important book. the narrator is a bit much at times, but you will learn to understand America much better by reading this book.

The doctrine of unintended consequences writ large

Broad, through treatment of the complex political and social upheaval that continues to affect us today.