West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War

From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners,...
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Author: Heather Cox Richardson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War by Richardson, Heather Cox

West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War

€34,84

West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War

€34,84
Author: Heather Cox Richardson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that could become a world power. Ultimately, the story of Reconstruction is about how a middle class formed in America and how its members defined what the nation would stand for, both at home and abroad, for the next century and beyond.

A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book stretches the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson--whose daily "Letters From an American" Substack newsletter has attracted a wide following--ties the North and West into the post-Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era.

By weaving together the experiences of real individuals--from a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer to Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull--who lived during the decades following the Civil War and who left records in their own words, Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America.

Author: Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.04w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780300136302


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/18/2008 pg. 28

About the Author
Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College and the author of The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North.

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