num_pages: 690
description: This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.
language: English
title: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
titlecomplete: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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: Harper Perennial Modern Classics