After
Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil
War and Lost the Peace A. J. Langguth
Very readable overview of the mismanagement of the post Civil War period from 1865-1877. As with his other books, Langguth uses the main players for the framework of the history. Very informative for me especially about Andrew Johnson’s corrupt mismanagement of Reconstruction and racist policies that led to the Jim Crow south. Reinforces the point that the failure of Reconstruction wasn’t the unsuccessful reconstruction of the union, it was the betrayal of the negroes by allowing the construction of a social order in the south almost as brutal and discriminatory as slavery. Deeply tragic.
Very readable overview of the mismanagement of the post Civil War period from 1865-1877. As with his other books, Langguth uses the main players for the framework of the history. Very informative for me especially about Andrew Johnson’s corrupt mismanagement of Reconstruction and racist policies that led to the Jim Crow south. Reinforces the point that the failure of Reconstruction wasn’t the unsuccessful reconstruction of the union, it was the betrayal of the negroes by allowing the construction of a social order in the south almost as brutal and discriminatory as slavery. Deeply tragic.
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