New book sheds light on Second American Revolution and popular class character of largely Black-led governments during post-Civil War Radical Reconstruction. Top: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (in front of tree) and staff in Virginia, less than a year before slave-holders’ rebellion was crushed in April 1865. Bottom: election meeting in former slave state, 1868. Reconstruction governments barred race discrimination; established public schools and universal male suffrage; expanded women’s rights and medical access.