What would have happened if Abraham Lincoln had lived beyond 1865? Would Reconstruction have succeeded, or at least failed less? On the latest edition of The Bookmonger, I ask this and more of Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, the new entry in the Oxford History of the United States series.
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