| Reconstruction Lib/E: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Contributor(s): Foner, Eric (Author), Dietz, Norman (Read by) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1504739884 ISBN-13: 9781504739887 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $144.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 carpet-baggers and scalawags; andthe 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Foner, Eric: - Eric Foner is an American historian and a faculty member of the department of history at Columbia University. He is the leading contemporary historian of the Reconstruction period. In 2011 his Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Reconstruction, considered the definitive work on the period, won many prizes for history writing. Foner's Gateway to Freedom was a New York Times bestseller in 2015. Dietz, Norman: -Norman Dietz is a writer, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and was named one of the fifty Best Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. He and his late wife, Sandra, transformed an abandoned ice-cream parlor into a playhouse, which served the world's best hot fudge sundaes before and after performances. The founder of Theatre in the Works, he lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |