The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era - Douglas R. Egerton

I had an idea of what Reconstruction in the United States looked like. A montage of lost opportunity with the death of Lincoln , short lived representation for African Americans, brutal suppression of those same people. This detailed history of the period has expanded that montage with the extrodinary lives of those who lived and fought through this critical period in the story of the United…