![]() ![]() ![]() Hamilton Cain - Minneapolis Star Tribune With The Second Founding, Foner offers a taut, absorbing companion piece to his magisterial Reconstruction, published three decades ago. In this moment, indeed in any, Eric Foner’s new book is uncommonly valuable. ![]() Foner makes his case with brio and erudition. The Second Founding… demonstrates talent at unearthing insights about the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, in particular how Americans defined and acted on the ideals of freedom and democracy.… in what another eminent historian, Christopher Lasch, called ‘plain style’: direct and vivid prose without a trace of specialized language, which anyone with a passing interest in the subject can read, learn from, and enjoy.Īs the dean of Reconstruction studies, Foner is the ideal scholar to produce a history of the three amendments added to the Constitution during the period-amendments so powerful as to justify the book’s title. ![]() Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent - New York Timesīrisk but far-reaching.… opies of this book should be spread around the capital, because the battles of contemporary Washington are but a second act to the struggles prompted by Foner’s Second Founding. Sometimes a book makes you reconsider a subject you’ve studied all of your adult life. Lincoln Caplan - New York Times Book Review Disciplined, powerful and moving.… important book. ![]()
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