The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution [Paperback]

Gripping and essential.Jesse Wegman, Disciplined, powerful and moving.& [An] important book. Lucid and succinct. Sometimes a book makes you reconsider a subject youve studied all of your adult life. Brisk but far-reaching.& [C]opies of this book should be spread around the capital, because the battles of contemporary Washington are but a second act to the struggles prompted by Foners As the dean of Reconstruction studies, Foner is the ideal scholar to produce a history of the three amendments added to the Constitution during the periodamendments so powerful as to justify the books title. Mr. Foner makes his case with brio and erudition. In this moment, indeed in any, Eric Foners new book is uncommonly valuable. With [