{"product_id":"west-from-appomattox-9780300136302","title":"West from Appomattox","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e's Holiday Guide (2007)\u003cbr\u003eSelected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Richardson tells a different story about the United States as a whole during a reconceptualized period of ‘Reconstruction’ after the Civil War.”—Sheldon Hackney, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Highly original, deeply researched, and important, \u003ci\u003eWest from Appomattox\u003c\/i\u003e has the added advantage of being extremely well written:  Heather Cox Richardson’s prose is clear, accessible, and compelling.”—Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With a marvelous sense of scope, narrative lucidity, and thorough research, Heather Richardson makes the convincing case that Americans still live in the world that Reconstruction built—or left partly unbuilt. A skilled historian of political economy, Richardson has here written a new and important synthesis of late-nineteenth-century American society enmeshed in a great struggle to determine just what kind of country the Civil War had wrought. This book is deeply informed and a good read; it spurs our effort to help Americans realize that their reading must not stop with Appomattox.\"—David W. Blight, Yale University, author of \u003ci\u003eRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A truly fresh reconsideration—and a smart and wonderfully written one—of Reconstruction. Richardson pulls back to a genuinely national perspective, and in doing so gives us a strikingly original view of this vitally important time in the national story.\"—Elliott West, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524704575831,"sku":"9780300136302","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300136302.jpg?v=1731857819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/west-from-appomattox-9780300136302","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}