I wanted and overview of the topic and I got it, but found it less than satisfying. The narrator might be tolerable for an hour, not for an entire book. That may explain the low satisfaction. Or maybe it’s because the reduction from the author’s original, longer book simply leaves too much out. It is an enormous topic.
If I were to go after an audiobook on Reconstruction again, I would choose the longer version, in hopes the additional detail it includes and a different reader would cure my disappointment.