Mark Wahlgren Summers is professor of history at the University of Kentucky and author of A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction.
An overall framework for understanding the key problems of the
period. . . . This is an important book, providing food for
thought, if only because, tonally as well as substantively, it
offers a counterpoint to the dominant narrative.--Journal of the
Civil War Era
A new narrative of the period featuring novel interpretations and
sparkling insight.--North Carolina Historical Review
A superb spinner of tales. . . . An important book, full of details
and insights, and it deserves serious attention.--Journal of
Southern History
A valuable resource for scholars who teach in the field of
Reconstruction.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Effectively captures the turmoil and frustrations of the era. . . .
[and] shows how economic woes affected Reconstruction's
prospects.--Publishers Weekly
Marvelously written.--CHOICE
Readers interested in Reconstruction will find Summers' book to be
a rollicking, deeply researched overview....[A] colorful guide to
the politics of the era.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Skillfully written and a benefit to students, scholars, and those
fascinated with the postwar years.--Southwestern Historical
Quarterly
Summers has devoted almost half a century to a study of the period,
and it shows.--Blue & Gray Magazine
Summers's rich and careful new history of Reconstruction stands out
in a crowded field....[His] mastery of the sources has allowed him
to write an impressively thorough history of the period, and to
pull together diverse strains with uncommon sophistication.--H-Net
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