6/29/2023 0 Comments The second founding book![]() Some of the problems of those years haunt American society today - vast inequalities of wealth and power, terrorist violence, aggressive racism. Foner writes,ĭuring Reconstruction the United States made its first attempt, flawed but truly remarkable for its time, to build an egalitarian society on the ashes of slavery. He places the experiences of African Americans front and center, and demonstrates how their centuries-long struggle for freedom, equality, and the suffrage has been an engine for originating and securing rights of all peoples within the United States. Where and how the newly reunified country went wrong-and what to do about that legacy - is the subject of Foner’s magisterial The Second Founding.įoner’s newest book is a call to remember. ![]() Historian Eric Foner, the most prolific and influential living historian of Reconstruction, argues in his concise recent book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019), that congressional Republicans attempted to reconstitute America through the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. It was the question on the minds of many, if not all, Americans of the time. How to begin again? Such was the question that animated the conversations of national political figures in the aftermath of the Civil War. ![]() Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women. ![]()
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