Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877.

FONER, Eric.

$475.00

Item Number: 116262

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1988.

First edition of this “smart book of enormous strengths” (Boston Globe) that has become the classic work on the wrenching post–Civil War period, an era whose legacy reverberates in the United States to this day. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To the Farham Family, With best wishes Eric Foner.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Irving Freeman.

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. It went on to win the 1988 Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Bancroft Prize, The Parkman Prize, The Avery O. Craven Prize, and The TriIling Prize and was nominated for the 1988 National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.