The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
by Joanne B. Freeman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Hardcover. Like New/New. Like New hardcover in new DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Publisher's overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Includes appendices [2], bibliography, index, and B&W illustrations. 450 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.
These fights didn't happen in a vacuum. Freeman's dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities―the feel, sense, and sound of it―as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.
These fights didn't happen in a vacuum. Freeman's dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities―the feel, sense, and sound of it―as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
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- Title
- The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
- Author
- Joanne B. Freeman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374154775
- ISBN 13
- 9780374154776
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Bestseller, Congress, US politics, US History, American history, Government, Violence, Congressmen, Civil War, Legislative sessions, Slavery, Fights, Antebellum, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,
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