The political and economic transformations the US went through in the wake of the Civil War created among many American citizens a strong sense of disappointment regarding the workings of government. In a tone reminiscent of the Puritan jeremiads, Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), historian, essayist, novelist, and one of the keenest observers of the US political scene throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, lamented the fact that America's system of government had reached such a critical point during Reconstruction that it had become urgent to recover the original meaning of the...
The political and economic transformations the US went through in the wake of the Civil War created among many American citizens a strong sense of dis...
