Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Contents
I: Democratic vistas (1863-1866) -- After the riots -- Black founders -- Toward reconstruction -- II: A new politics (1866-1874) -- An age of conventions -- Acts of enforcement -- Liberty and the postwar city -- III: The ends of reconstruction (1874-1880) -- Tilden's America -- "The proud name of 'citizen' has sunk" -- New York reconstructed -- Grant's tomb.