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An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.

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	Customer Reviews: Average Rating: Rating : - Shorter version of the standard history of Reconstruction This is a condensed version of Foner's longer on Reconstruction, the period which followed the Civil War, during which America and the South struggled to to re-define their world with slavery ended. The story is pretty simple. When Lincoln freed the slaves, he did so as a war measure intended to help the North win the war. He had not given much thought to how to deal with black freedom, and he was killed before he had much chance to think about it. He was followed by Andrew Johnson, as President, who was a Unionist Southern Democrat who hated blacks more than he hated rich Southerners. His approach to Reconstruction was to rapidly let the Southern states back into the country, and to let them deal with blacks as they liked, which basically meant to re-enslave them in all but name. The Radical Republicans in Congress then seized control of policy from him, and made a somewhat confused but nevertheless sincere effort to make the South like the rest of the country, by insisting that blacks be treated as free wage-workers rather than quasi-slaves. Congress never really thought this policy through. It made no effort to give land to the ex-slaves, for example, although that was obviously necessary. After a few years of trying to make this work, the North basically said the hell with it, washed its hand of blacks and let the South do as it wished. As a result, real black civil rights had to wait until the 1960s. This is the basic story, and Foner's account, at this point, is the standard one. It is hard to remember this, but, before this book was written, the dominant view of the period was pro-Southern and anti-black. Foner certainly helped to perform a great service by erasing that twisted mis-interpretation of our past. As I read the book, I felt that, while it is a good, solid account, it fails to put the issues into larger context. The Civil War started, in 1860, because Lincoln was elected President. Lincoln did not run on a platform of abolishing slavery. On the contrary, his promise was to prevent slavery from spreading any further and to put it on the path to ultimate extinction. If you look at the end result of Reconstruction, it is pretty much what Lincoln promised. Slavery was not really abolished. It was, however, limited to the South, its legitimatcy was destroyed and it was put on the path where it would, ultimately, be ended. That is what Lincoln promised. Lincoln believed that the nation was not ready to go further than that. It looks like he was right. + See Full Customer Review

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