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

Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict 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 w...

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Main Author: Freeman, Joanne B., 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Closed Stacks

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Call Number: E 338 .F735 2018
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