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Randall Kennedy: The Lessons of Reconstruction, 30 July 2020
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner.
Norton, 288 pp., £18.99, October 2019,978 0 393 65257 4 Show More
by Eric Foner.
Norton, 288 pp., £18.99, October 2019,
“... public recognition. By comparison, key framers of the Reconstruction Amendments – James Ashley, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trumbull and Thaddeus Stevens – are obscure. Unfamiliar, too, are the origins and back stories of their constitutional handiwork, which Foner ably describes.Throughout his career Foner has championed progressive radicalism in the American ... ”