Five best: books about the post-Civil War period

Stephen Budiansky is the author of The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, which has just been published by Viking.He named a five best list of books which "capture the hope and turmoil of the post-Civil War period" for the Wall Street Journal.One title to make the list:ReconstructionBy Eric FonerHarper & Row, 1988 "Nearly two and a half centuries had passed since twenty black men and women