Letters and Politics

Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part II

Abraham Lincoln, the Radical Republicans & Andrew Johnson.

Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.

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