Richard White
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xx, 941 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"During Reconstruction Northerners attempted to remake the United States in their own image. They would make incarnate the new world Republicans imagined at the end of the Civil War. That new world seemed possible because the Republican Party controlled the Union in 1865 as fully as any political party would ever control the country. Reconstruction would produce a nation built around free labor with a homogenous citizenry whose rights would be guaranteed...