Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

The Reconstruction Era: A New Perspective by Eric Foner is a groundbreaking work that redefines how we view this pivotal period in American history.

This masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history offers a fresh perspective on the post-Civil War era, chronicling the ways in which Americans - black and white - responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.

With a deep understanding of the literature of the period and disciplined imagination, Foner draws freely from it, preserving and savoring the possibilities of situations, so that the betrayal of Reconstruction is conveyed with terrible poignancy.

This smart book of enormous strengths remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period - an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.