This Wounded Land: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

ix, 176 pp. "Opening with a view of the political, economic, and social structure of Southern society before the War, Mr. Werstein then traces the problems of Reconstruction through to their solution, from Lincoln's plans for rebuilding the South and reuniting the Union, through Johnson's policies, Grant's administrations, and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes."