Download or read book Reconstruction written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.