Redemption
Book 5 of The Earthborn

Reading this book is like taking bitter medicine. It's good for you, but not pleasant. I had the same feeling at the beginning of this book as when I began Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; which was, "This isn't not going to end well." The book is about the post Civil War reconstruction era. This i......more

There can be no doubt about it: Confederate forces continued to fight a guerilla war against African Americas and their supporters after the Civil War in the Southern United States. There can also be no question as to the commitment of the government to put down such forces. That Jim Crow laws tried......more

I was drawn to this primarily because it's about my great-great-grandfather Adelbert Ames and his tenure as governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction; he had been the subject of a short, unfavorable mention in Profiles in Courage, which the family tried to correct without success, and Lemann, I......more

The End Of Reconstruction In order to place Nicholas Lemann's fine book "Redemption: the Last Battle of the Civil War" in context, a bit of background is necessary. With the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the United States faced the daunting tasks of reintegrating the......more

The standard history of the Civil War is that America fought a bloody war to abolish slavery and the South lost. As Nicholas Lemann makes so clear in this compelling book, it was hardly that simple. Ten years after the end of the war, with Ulysses Grant in the Oval Office, the fate of political and s......more