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Eric Foner
Eric Foner, a member of The Nation’s editorial board and the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is the author, most recently, of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
The agrarian, feminist, and labor movements of the 19th century elevated equality to a cardinal principle, but all three fell short when it came to transcending the divide of race.
The central preoccupations of his life and historical work—the strengths, limits, and vulnerabilities of 20th-century liberalism—are still at the center of debate today.