Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy

by Jeremi Suri

Book Overview

The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did

In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541758544
• ISBN13: 9781541758544
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"