The Field of Blood : Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Paperback)

from Shrike58

Those folks who have taken the time to study Antebellum U.S. history are aware of the culture of violence that suffused the time, culminating in the assault on Sen. Charles Sumner by Rep. Preston Brooks. However, the author's signal service is to uncover the depths of that culture (mostly a South...

from EricCostello

Rousing, first-class bit of history regarding the history of Congressional violence in the generation leading up to the Civil War, and its origins and ties to ongoing disputes over the future of slavery in the United States. Some of the material (like the caning of Senator Sumner) is old territor...

from rivkat

Great, disturbing book about how much violence there was in the antebellum Congress-a guy died in a duel, and that's not even the thing you know about (Sumner's caning). John Quincy Adams deliberately used his elderly, decrepit statesman status to say things that other Northerners couldn't say wi...

from Patricia

wow fast delivery and book in perfect condition, excited to read this book

from bemislibrary

In the early days of our republic, serving as an elected official in either house of Congress could prove to be a mortal hazard. In antebellum America, the carrying of knives and guns on one's person was common, as was drunkenness and gambling. Add to this already volatile mix the sectional tensi...