Volume 46, Number 14 · September 23, 1999
Freedom and Its Discontents
By Theodore H. Draper
The Story of American Freedom
by Eric Foner
Norton, 422 pp., $27.95
Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and formerly Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford, is one of our most distinguished historians. He is a past president of the Organization of American Historians and is president-elect of the American Historical Association. Foner's books have been mainly devoted to the nineteenth century of the United States, of which the best known is his Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877, which won many prizes, including the Bancroft Prize.
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