From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Eric Foner, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution” (Norton) is a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. “The Second Founding” launches at the Festival.

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