Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. In his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. In 2006, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. His most recent books are The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes and the Pulitzer Prize for History; Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, winner of the New York Historical Society Book Prize; and The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
"Illuminating . . . an invaluable addition to our history."
*Kevin Baker - New York Times Book Review*
"Mandatory, and riveting, reading."
*Sam Roberts - New York Times*
"[A] detailed narrative . . . infused with the spirit of
freedom."
*Bruce Watson - San Francisco Chronicle*
"Excellent . . . Mr. Foner, bringing to bear his well-honed
research skills and his deep knowledge of slavery and race
relations . . . vividly describes the key part that New York City
played in the operations of the Underground Railroad . . . he
merits high praise for contributing sold information and thoughtful
analysis to the history of this shadowy, extensive network."
*David S. Reynolds - Wall Street Journal*
"Riveting . . . a visceral chronicle of defiance and
sacrifice."
*Edward P. Jones - O Magazine*
"Bring[s] to bear the insights of a long and distinguished career
writing about the Civil War and Reconstruction eras and a sharp
sense of the ironies that involuntary servitude posed for a nation
that proclaimed itself to be built on principles of liberty . . .
highly readable."
*Michael D. Schaffer - Philadelphia Inquirer*
"A terrific and powerful story."
*Billy Heller - New York Post*
"Dramatic and compelling."
*David Hugh Smith - Christian Science Monitor*
"Suspense and drama on nearly every page. . . . The art of
historical narrative at its very best."
*Jonah Raskin - Huffington Post*
"Eric Foner has won a place in the front rank of American
historians with books that seem to vacuum up all available sources
to produce bold new interpretations of the country’s reckoning with
the big questions of slavery and freedom."
*Jennifer Schuessler - New York Times*
"Reminds us that history can be as stirring as the most gripping
fiction."
*Wendy Smith - Los Angeles Times*
"Tells a story that will surprise most readers . . .
Compelling."
*Adam Goodheart - The Atlantic*
"[Foner] carries the reader along, as if galloping through a valley
of subterfuge and salvation that might also doom freedom at any
time. Foner crucially delineates the profound challenge and
existential risk that engulfed an interracial generation as the
nation thundered toward dissolution, or Civil War."
*Kevin Lynch - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel*
"Compelling . . . by turns scholarly and gripping."
*Alexander Nazaryan - Newsweek*
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