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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era By Douglas Egerton, Bloomsbury Press 2013, $30 With the Civil War sesquicentennial nearing its conclusion, attention will soon turn to Reconstruction. Depending on your point of view, the commemoration will either be quite brief (after all, President Andrew Johnson declared Reconstruction complete …
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