How long does it take to read The Second Founding?
The Second Founding by Eric Foner takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2019. 264 pages, about 72,600 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes 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 Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Law, united states, Constitutional history, Influence, History, Law and legislation, POLITICAL SCIENCE
