WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. The rise and fall of the second American republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

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Sinha, Manisha
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Sinha's startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote--and which Sinha calls the 'last Reconstruction amendment.