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The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War (Witness to History)

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 | #939783 in Books |  2010-03-25 |  2010-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.40 x6.00l,.50 | File type: PDF | 160 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By jpaskill|great book. very interesting into the pre-Civil War politics life in D.C.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Daisymom|had to read|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Examination of a Singular Event Falls Short|By JLafa|From Booklist|On May 22, 1856, Preston S. Brooks, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, entered the Senate chamber. In an attack that lasted about a minute, Brooks repeatedly bludgeone

A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid.

Sumner, a noted abolitionist and gifted speaker, was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1...

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