Civil War and Reconstruction Writings of Charles Nordhoff

This volume is a collection of Charles Nordhoff's essays and journalism on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Nordhoff was a vocal supporter of Lincoln's theory of the perpetual union of the Constitution and the impossibility of secession. His liberal sensibilities made him interested, like his fellow German-American Carl Schurz, in idealistic schemes of racial integration and efforts to reform Democrat-run city machines. His most important work from the period is his remarkable series o