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The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War (Witness to History)
The Caning of Charles Sumner Honor Idealism and the Origins of the Civil War - Witness to History
Author: Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801894688
ISBN-10: 0801894689
Publication Date: 3/26/2010
Pages: 160
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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