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A review by mattirubin
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
5.0
This book was so good, and it's truly horrifying how much of this info I never learned about til now despite growing up in Georgia, majoring in Political Science with a concentration in US Politics, and working for a labor union.
I would recommend everyone read this.
It was a little hard for me to follow by audiobook, partly because of how dense it is and I just don't do audio books as well when there's so much info in it, and partly because the book as a well written and sourced history is so sooo packed full of quotes from primary and secondary sources but the audiobook didn't have clear indicators of where quotes stopped and ended unless written into the text. That meant it excluded visual indicators readers seeing how text is formatted weren't transferred over in some way.
I plan on getting a copy of the print book and reading it again some time in a year or so, and probably would've done this regardless of whether parts of the audiobook were hard for me to follow because the books just that good and there's that much to learn from it.
I would recommend everyone read this.
It was a little hard for me to follow by audiobook, partly because of how dense it is and I just don't do audio books as well when there's so much info in it, and partly because the book as a well written and sourced history is so sooo packed full of quotes from primary and secondary sources but the audiobook didn't have clear indicators of where quotes stopped and ended unless written into the text. That meant it excluded visual indicators readers seeing how text is formatted weren't transferred over in some way.
I plan on getting a copy of the print book and reading it again some time in a year or so, and probably would've done this regardless of whether parts of the audiobook were hard for me to follow because the books just that good and there's that much to learn from it.