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The death of Reconstruction
race, labor, and politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
By Richardson, Heather Cox
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-637-9
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 3, 2001
Richardson (history, MIT) continues the work she started in her first book, The Greatest Nation of the Earth, which focused on how the Republican ideal of "free labor" shaped Union legislation during the Civil War. This ideal held that through hard work and persistence any man could advance in American society and that laissez-faire government was the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
