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The Field of Blood - Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Paperback)
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The Field of Blood - Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 560
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In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost
story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress 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. The result is riveting - and it reveals
fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the
bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
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