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[[File:Great_New_Orleans.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|<i>The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era</i> by Michael A. Ross]]
'''Your previous book, ''Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era'', focused on the impact of Justice Samuel Freeman Miller on the Supreme Court. How did you shift from looking at the Supreme Court to examining Reconstruction in New Orleans?'''
'''How would you recommend using this book in a class? How can your book help students better understand the issues surrounding Reconstruction?'''
I am always looking for books to assign in class that tell a story that is compelling enough to pull student readers in, but that also illuminate the main themes of my course. I often assign books like Kevin Boyle’s ''[http://www.powells.com/book/arc-of-justice-a-saga-of-race-civil-rights-murder-in-the-jazz-age-9780805079333?partnerid=&p_ti Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age]'' and Jill Lepore’s ''[http://www.powells.com/book/new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-9781400032266?partnerid=&p_ti New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan]'' that use a single trial or event to reveal a larger world. I hope ''The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case'' will be assigned (and read) for the same reasons.
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