Results for "Bordewich, Fergus M."

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKKThe Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as “the first ... Read More about Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to vic... Read More about Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America

The story of a brilliant woman cut down in her prime and of a haunted man who confronted the source of his pain, uncovered startling truths, and reclaimed his own life along with that of his mother.“Beautifully written…. A fascinating portrait of an engagingly complex and admirable woman.” —Los... Read More about My Mother's Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son's Love, and the Power of Memory

In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Ameri... Read More about Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century

The “stimulating, richly informed” (The Wall Street Journal) story behind the Compromise of 1850, which preserved the Union on the eve of the Civil War—“original in concept, stylish in execution…provides everything history readers want.…The characters seem as vivid, human, and understandable as thos... Read More about America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union