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Eric Foner

Review: Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution W. W. Norton, 2019 and Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West Columbia University Press, 2019

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Eric Foner, Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is known for his writing on the culprit values which led to the American Civil War, in his Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1995), and for tracing the success and failures that came afterward, in…

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