Fergus M. Bordewich, author portrait
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Fergus M. Bordewich

FERGUS M. BORDEWICH is the author of eight previous nonfiction books, including Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America; The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (winner of the 2016 D.B. Hardeman Prize in American History); and America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union (named best history book of 2012 by the Los Angeles Times). He lives in Washington, DC with his wife.
Klan War
Congress at War
My Mother's Ghost
Killing the White Man's Indian

Books

Klan War
Congress at War
My Mother's Ghost
Killing the White Man's Indian