What can America learn from its radical history?

With the inauguration of President Trump, the US enters unchartered political territory and the dawn of a new era.

This timely collection of essays from eminent historian Eric Foner unearths the forgotten movements and characters of America’s radical past, pondering the need for another era of Reconstruction. Throughout his career, Foner has called out political leaders for their misuse of American history. Including a letter to Bernie Sanders from 2015, and a new piece on teaching radicalism in the age of Obama, Foner here reflects on how American progressives should celebrate the Radical tradition, and contemplates how to retrieve and renew it in an uncertain new age.

Eric Foner is a leading historian on American history. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize and Lincoln Prize. He is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University  and the author of several books.