An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War–era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their
virtual nullification by narrow Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws. Today these amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up.
“Gripping and essential.”—New York Times
Engels
The First King of England : Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
Extraction : The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
The Spinach King : The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Rivalry Peril : How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy
The Wires of War : Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
The Colonialist : The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
Africonomics : A History of Western Ignorance
Domination
The Cooking of Books : A Literary Memoir
The Anti-Catastrophe League : The pioneers and visionaries on a quest to save the world
The Baton and the Cross : Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin
Days of Love and Rage : A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
