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Try free nowA brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by acclaimed author A. J. Langguth, After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.
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A. J. Langguth (1933–2014) was the author of eight books of nonfiction and three novels. After Lincoln marks his fourth book in a series that began in 1988 with Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. He served as a Saigon bureau chief for the New York Times, after covering the Civil Rights movement for the newspaper. Langguth taught for three decades at the University of Southern California and retired in 2003 as emeritus professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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