Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of several books. In 2006 he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. He lives in New York City.
“Foner’s book brings to distinguished fruition one great cycle of
Reconstruction historiography.” — New York Review of Books
"With this book, Mr. Foner becomes the preeminent historian of
Reconstruction." — New York Times Book Review
“Eric Foner has put together this terrible story with greater
cogency and power, I believe, than has been brought to the subject
heretofore.” — New York Review of Books
“Foner’s book traces in rich detail the bitter course of the
history of the South’s failure to adjust to the revolution that
brought the Civil War. Only by tracing that history and
understanding can the region fully disenthrall itself even today.
No book could be more timely. ” — Atlanta Constitution
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