Colleen’s Reviews > Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 > Status Update

I read this hoping that learning more about the country during the civil war and reconstruction might help me understand current events. I think , as far as that went, I only succeeded in discovering the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is not only a really well resarched history, but also a beautifully written one. From the moving death of john Quincy Adams that starts it off, through the horri