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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
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Author:
Manisha Sinha
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
March 26, 2024
We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. Historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction.
What The Reviewers Say
Sinha tells these stories well. She also pushes out beyond the conventionally defined subjects of Reconstruction.
Ambitious and expansive.
Rigorously researched and brilliantly argued.
Though meant to be a history, the story [Sinha] tells in The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic is achingly relevant.
