Southern Reconstruction Hardcover – June 7, 2017

More accurate than Eric Foners woke ideology. This book explains in detail the Reconstruction period based on 19th century times. Foner, who has been pushed to the forefront as a leading reconstruction historian by the woke media tries to explain 19th century issues with today’s standards. Anyone who compares history with today has done history wrong. The south was badly treated...poor families who had nothing to do with slavery ( which was over 95 percent of them in the south ) were devastated by radical polices of Congress. Also, President Johnson gets unfair treatment in today’s eye...Johnson became president after Lincoln in a time of great turmoil. Johnson’s reconstruction plan might have better prepared peace in the south without having culture wars for over 80 years. The radical republicans of the north created resentment among poor whites and blacks. Instead of punishing the plantation owners and rebels of the south, the north punished the poor whites who just wanted to live peacefully....this in turn created economic suffering which led to resentment toward everyone.

It is incredibly refreshing to read something so well researched yet easily readable in a succinct format. I learned a great deal that is all so applicable to understanding politics today both local and national. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is honest enough with themselves to admit that they know very little detail of the post civil-war period in the South.

This book is at its best when presenting factual data, but falls down when it throws out unsupported opinions. Author's opinions of what Lincoln thought and felt seem to be non sequiturs without grounding in his larger actions or the data provided.

When Andrew Jackson is your hero you know something is wrong.The South was kept in poverty but not all of it was deliberate and the author even admits that.

Leigh's latest work, "Southern Reconstruction" is an excellent study of a critical and too often misunderstood part of American history. It is a no nonsense tour de force on a subject that has largely been swept under the rug or rationalized in modern history circles. Leigh artfully slices through the overly biased and counterfeit emotionalism that defines the current Cultural Marxist revisionist historiography on the subject (Eric Foner, et al,) and examines the cultural, economic,and political aspects of this turbulent period thoughtfully and analytically. He empirically demonstrates that the corruption and economic deprivations of Reconstruction did not end in 1877, but in fact remained a national punitive domestic policy, whether deliberate or incidental, impacting both white and black Southerners well into the 20th century and even today. Perhaps one day the academic discipline of history will return to its senses and follow Leigh's example of examining this era from a historical perspective rather than a vindictive partisan and anti-Southern sectional perspective. I am quite sure this work will be repeatedly found in the bibliographies of many thoughtful students in the future.

This book confirmed most of my suspicions regarding the socioeconomic differences between the North and the South. This period of American history does not receive the coverage it truly deserves. The treatment of white southerners; their persons, property, and dignity by the federal government is as much a black mark on American history as the early 20th century treatment of African Americans. To look down upon the South and it's people with indignation as so many people from the North still do ( I know, I lived in the North for 65 years), is inexcusable. This book provides an eyeopening education to the facts that are never taught in northern schools.

Although this book is not lengthy it is packed with information about the period known as Reconstruction. Most books I have read about reconstruction fail to accurately detail the negative impact it had on the South. Also this book gave details about the negative impact upon black and white citizens of the South. The rise of racism and its political impacts upon our nation are explained in detail. I highly recommend that you add this book to your reading of American history.

The devastation caused by war remains decades after the fighting stops... lesson: War is financial hell."During the fifty years prior to 1917, the accumulated Union veterans' pensions totaled over $5 billion, which was more than twice the amount spent by the Federal and Northern state governments to fight the war."Southern Reconstruction - Philip Leigh https://amzn.to/3r9uOyV