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Cargando... The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferrypor Truman Nelson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Using almost exclusively primary sources, Nelson offers a far different portrait of Brown than even the more sympathetic ones of recent years. Commonly portrayed as a fanatic, a madman, or a deluded prophet on a quixotic crusade Nelson offers an individual commanding respect from even those most fervently opposed to him and his ideas. His plan was a revolutionary one, but one of modest scale that was ultimately undone by Brown's compassion and desire to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Not what - or who - I was expecting. Despite being a Kansan and very familiar with his role in 'Bleeding Kansas', I had never really read up on the Harper's Ferry raid or Brown's end. This is a magnificent testament to an American hero's life. I especially appreciated the final pages of Senate debate following the raid, highlighting how Brown's raid made the Civil War inevitable. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Truman Nelson's biography of John Brown is a refreshing and eloquent corrective to the common misconceptions about the character and actions of this extraordinary American hero."--Howard Zinn On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a historic attack on the Harper's Ferry Armory. Nelson narrates the incredible events that unfolded that day and explodes the conventional dismissal of John Brown as a fanatic, presenting him as a revolutionary who, at the cost of his own life, helped bring an end to slavery. After Brown's execution, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass said of him, "If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery. . . . Until this blow was struck, the prospect for freedom was dim, shadowy and uncertain. The irrepressible conflict was one of words, votes and compromises. When John Brown stretched forth his arm, the sky was cleared. The time for compromises was gone--the armed hosts of freedom stood face to face over the chasm of a broken Union--and the clash of arms was at hand. The South staked all upon getting possession of the Federal Government, and failing to do that, drew the sword of rebellion and thus made her own, and not Brown's, the lost cause of the century." Truman Nelson(1911-1987) wrote many books, includingThe SurveyorandThe Right of Revolution. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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