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Book Review


West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv, 396 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11052-4.)
Following the path blazed by (among others) William A. Dunning and David Donald, Heather Cox Richardson offers a definition of "reconstruction" that is broader and more encompassing than the traditional one that concerns defining freedom for African Americans and reestablishing civil government in the states of the former Confederacy. For her, this "new birth of freedom" was nothing less than a fundamental debate over what sort of social and political order should emerge from the war and the role of the federal government in shaping that order. . . .
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