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Foner, Eric

 
9780393652574: The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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ISBN 10 : 0393652572 ISBN 13 : 9780393652574
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2019

Synopsis

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into America's foundation.

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal but it took the Civil War and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law and equipped black men with the right to vote. By grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, the amendments marked the second founding of the United States.

Eric Foner conveys the dramatic origins of these revolutionary amendments and explores the court decisions that then narrowed and nullified the rights guaranteed in these amendments. Today, issues of birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process and equal protection are still in dispute; the ideal of equality yet to be achieved.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe-whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393652572
ISBN 13 
9780393652574
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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