description: Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery.
language: English
title: Reconstruction
titlecomplete: Reconstruction
characters: Thaddeus Stevens, Andrew Johnson
genres: History, Race, American History, The United States Of America, Civil War, 19th Century, American, Nonfiction, American Civil War, Politics
ratings_count: 5679
series: The New American Nation Series
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lionel Trilling Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award
publisher: Blackstone Pub