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Curious if anyone's read and could recommend a good book on the Reconstruction era, and the transition into the Gilded Age - ideally, a political one that starts with Lincoln's assassination, think Team of Rivals. I know there is a good amount of stuff on the racial politics of Reconstruction, and while that's interesting, I was hoping for something a little more holistic. Or, maybe a pair of books.
Like, I want the nitty gritty details about how Southern senators slowly got their seats back in the legislature. I want to know about the politics of the Freedman's Bureau. How demobilization went. Who was in power in the South for the next few years locally. Drama between Johnson, Grant, Stanton, public opinion, carpetbaggers, the healing/scarring process of bitter post-war feelings, the super contested 1976 election, there's so much history happening there that I think gets shortchanged.
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