The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War by Iver Bernstein

The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War

Iver Bernstein

384 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rio...

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