| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox. By Stephen Budiansky. (New York: Viking, 2008. 322 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-670-01840-6.)

Eric Foner in his classic Reconstruction (1988) well documented the period's bloody history. Now popular historians are bringing that message to a wider audience. To accompany Nicholas Lemann's account of the return of white rule in Mississippi, Redemption (2006), Stephen Budiansky has produced a readable synthesis. Budiansky's treatment is not comprehensive, nor is it intended for a scholarly audience. There are no footnotes, and the author uses long extracts from primary sources to carry the narrative. Generally, the book is enjoyable to read as he has chosen his extracts well. His method has the added advantage of condemning the villains with their own words. White southerners appear in letters and newspaper accounts as unremittingly racist and unabashed at the bloodshed.

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