The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

Title: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic Author: Manisha Sinha American History: 1689091 ISBN: 9781324096283 Publisher: Liveright Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877) Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed--and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun i