Sun, Nov 13
|Collected Works Bookstore
Jeremi Suri, Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Jeremi will be in conversation with Jim Falk, Program Chair at Global Santa Fe, our co-presenting partner for this event. Jeremi Suri brilliantly contextualizes the roots of contemporary racial and political divisions that culminated in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 13, 2022, 4:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and we will also live stream the evening on Zoom, please register to watch here.
Publishing October 18, you can pre-order Civil War By Other Means online here or call the store (505) 988-4226
The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did. In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln’s vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military victory was squandered. Old white supremacist efforts returned, more ferocious than before. In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri shows how resistance to a more equal Union began immediately. From the first postwar riots to…