Original publication date
1988
Pages
xxv; 690
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
New York: Perennial Classics, c1988; First Perennial Classics edition, 2002; 4th printing, 2004
Physical description
xxv, 690 p.; 23.3 cm
ISBN
0060937165 / 9780060937164
Language
Description
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.
Subjects
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Nonfiction — 1988)
Pulitzer Prize (Finalist — History — 1989)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — History — 1988)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — General Nonfiction — 1988)