The field of blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war

The field of blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war / Joanne B. Freeman.

"In [this book], the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portrait of American politics in its rowdiest years. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that today's hyperpolarized environment cannot compare with the turbulent atmosphere of the d...

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Main Author: Freeman, Joanne B., 1962- (Author)
Corporate Author: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
History.
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