Reconstruction:  America’s Unfinished Revolution
by Eric Foner
1988 (2003) –  736 pages
Rating 9.5

Wow – what a definitive book – more about Reconstruction and that era than I really thought I ever wanted to know.  It’s good though – thorough – very good.  The only downside is that it reads like a textbook but if that doesn’t bother you I’d say go for it!

I was always more interested in the other issues of the post-Civil War era – the Gilded Age, Westward expansion,  the Women’s movement –  but right in the middle of all of that was Reconstruction and the Revolution that wanted to be  >>>>> MORE >>>>>