Bricks Without Straw (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1880 sequel to A Fool's Errand was equally successful.  Drawing on his experiences in the Reconstruction-era South, Tourgée recounts how the high ideals of Reconstruction were sabotaged by the Ku Klux Klan and the culture of white supremacy that thrived in the defeated Confederacy—often with the concurrence of the victorious North.