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Stephen A. Goldman presents “One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause,” which contains multitudes that would need to be covered. Very much intended for academic audiences, including other professors and scholars in the field, Goldman goes into very granular depth about legal proceedings and different things that happened in the wake of the Civil War’s end, including the response of Union veterans to things like the Pittsburgh and Cleveland Conventions. He traces, in painstaking detail, the conflicts that came up with the Freedmen’s Bureau, the emergence of the Klan, and other terrors. Overall, I think that it is intended for those with a very granular interest in the subject matter, which is very dense throughout and may be discouraging to lay readers who could struggle with the text overall.

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