Separate

"""Dazzlingly well-reported.… [A]n eye-opening journey through some of the darkest passages and haunting corridors of American history."" -- Terence Samuel - NPR ""Deeply researched, and it wears its learning lightly."" -- Louis Menand - The New Yorker ""A striking view of Reconstruction and of the tragic stillbirth of freedom in that era."" -- Charles S. Dameron - Wall Street Journal ""Separate vividly tells the story of how far our country had to go to repudiate its commitments to a racial double standard."" -- David Cole - The Nation ""Luxenberg gives a three-dimensional and almost novelistic treatment to the players involved, drawing on diaries, letters and archival research."" -- Joumana Khatib - The New York Times ""In Separate, the context and aftermath of the court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson are woven into a nuanced history of America’s struggles in the 19th century as a civil war was fought, slavery ended and a new, complex racial politics haltingly took form."" -- The Economist ""Informative, engaging, exquisitely written, sensitive to individuals’ frailties, flaws, and inconsistencies, by turns inspiring and dispiriting, Separate is a splendid work of history."" -- Glenn C. Altschuler - Florida Courier ""In documenting this country’s fateful journey from slavery through thwarted Reconstruction to segregation, Luxenberg paints on a broad canvas, elegantly narrating several captivating and scrupulously researched stories that converge in Plessy v. Ferguson.… [F]ascinating."" -- Steve Nathans-Kelly - New York Journal of Books ""[Luxenberg] is a fine writer… Separate reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom."" -- Eric Foner - The Washington Post ""An ambitious and deeply researched nonfiction account.… [Luxenberg] draws on letters, diaries and archival collections to bring the true story to life."" -- Suzanne Van Atten - Atlanta Journal-Constitution"