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The field of blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war
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Overview
\"Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on [a] ... 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 ... These fights didn't happen in a vacuum. Freeman's ... 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\"--Publisher marketing.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Subject
United States. Congress History 19th century.
/ Legislators United States History 19th century.
/ Legislators Violence against United States.
/ Political violence United States History 19th century.
/ Political culture United States History 19th century.
/ United States Politics and government 1815-1861.
ISBN
9780374154776, 0374154775
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| E338.F735 2018 | 1 | BOOK | AUTOSTORE |
