Reconstruction - Allen C. (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Guelzo - Bog

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.