About the Author

William Gillette is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and author of The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. He received his doctorate in history from Princeton University.

Reviews

Retreat from Reconstruction is a prodigious work of scholarship. Mr. Gillette's conclusions are sensible, reasonable, and significant. This is a major book on an important and neglected topic in American--and particularly southern--history.--David Herbert Donald