THE FIELD OF BLOOD: By Joanne B. Freeman (2018 Hardcover){G2}

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374154775
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9780374154776
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Book Title
Field of Blood : Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American Government / Legislative Branch, Corruption & Misconduct, United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Political, Violence in Society
Publication Year
2018
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Yes
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Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
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Joanne B. Freeman
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Hardcover

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"With narrative flair and scholarly gravitas, Joanne Freeman has given us a powerful and original account of a ferociously divided America. For readers who think things in the first decades of the 21st century have never been worse, Freeman's portrait of a tempestuous and tumultuous U.S. Congress offers a sobering and illuminating corrective. She shows us that the battles of the Civil War began not at Fort Sumter but in the U.S. Capitol, providing a new and compelling angle of vision on the origins of what Lincoln called our 'fiery trial.'" --Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The American Lion "In 1861, Americans grimly set to slaughtering the better part of a million of their fellow citizens. It was the most extraordinary break in the nation's history--and Joanne Freeman charts its approach in an extraordinary new way. With insightful analysis and vivid detail, she explores the human relationships among congressmen before the Civil War, and finds a culture of astonishing violence. In fistfights, duels, and mass brawls, her innovative account detects steps toward disunion--and changes how we think about political history." --T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer's Trials "Joanne B. Freeman's erudition--and humor--are their own accomplishment, but it's remarkable a masterful work on the disruptive state of the Union arrives precisely at this time. There could be no better guide. I'm left wondering whether America is in a state of disrepair or still in the process of being born." --Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "Those who deplore the hyperpartisanship and decline of civility in contemporary American politics as unprecedented need to know more history. As Joanne Freeman makes clear in this compelling account, party strife, personal honor, and above all the slavery controversy brought unparalleled mayhem to the floors of Congress in the generation before the Civil War. Southern bullying and growing Northern resistance in the House and Senate foreshadowed the battlefields of 1861-1865." -- James McPherson, emeritus professor of history Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom "Joanne Freeman puts us on the tumultuous and touchy floor of Congress during its most contentious and momentous years. In a story researched and written with bold energy, she chronicles a young America brawling its way toward war. The personalities and conflicts of long-forgotten duels and fights leap to life, speaking to our own time with surprising relevance." --Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom , winner of the Lincoln Prize "Joanne Freeman of Yale calls attention to the scandalously frequent role of violence in the United States Congress across 28 tense years culminating in the Civil War. She describes many varieties of Congressional violence, including bullying, fighting in the halls of Congress, fisticuffs, guns, knives, duels and threats of duels. With painstaking research, she penetrates the conspiracy of silence imposed by sources frequently reluctant to publicize the embarrassing truth. The reader is surprised that such an important story should have waited so long to be told." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought "Congress in the 19th Century was a violent place to work. Legislators let out their sectional rage on each other, throwing punches and wielding weapons, in an institution that made our current politics look downright tame. In her riveting narrative, Joanne Freeman unpacks this volatile world to explain why the relations between elected officials became so brutal." --Julian Zelizer is a political historian at Princeton University and author of The Fierce Urgency of Now, "With narrative flair and scholarly gravitas, Joanne Freeman has given us a powerful and original account of a ferociously divided America. For readers who think things in the first decades of the 21st century have never been worse, Freeman's portrait of a tempestuous and tumultuous U.S. Congress offers a sobering and illuminating corrective. She shows us that the battles of the Civil War began not at Fort Sumter but in the U.S. Capitol, providing a new and compelling angle of vision on the origins of what Lincoln called our 'fiery trial.'" --Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The American Lion "In 1861, Americans grimly set to slaughtering the better part of a million of their fellow citizens. It was the most extraordinary break in the nation's history--and Joanne Freeman charts its approach an extraordinary new way. With insightful analysis and vivid detail, she explores the human relationships among congressmen before the Civil War, and finds a culture of astonishing violence. In fistfights, duels, and mass brawls, her innovative account detects steps toward disunion--and changes how we think about political history." --T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer's Trials "Joanne B. Freeman's erudition--and humor--are their own accomplishment, but it's remarkable a masterful work on the disruptive state of the Union arrives precisely at this time. There could be no better guide. I'm left wondering whether America is in a state of disrepair or still in the process of being born." --Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "Those who deplore the hyperpartisanship and decline of civility in contemporary American politics as unprecedented need to know more history. As Joanne Freeman makes clear in this compelling account, party strife, personal honor, and above all the slavery controversy brought unparalleled mayhem to the floors of Congress in the generation before the Civil War. Southern bullying and growing Northern resistance in the House and Senate foreshadowed the battlefields of 1861-1865." -- James McPherson, emeritus professor of history Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Battle Cry of Freedom "Joanne Freeman puts us on the tumultuous and touchy floor of Congress during its most contentious and momentous years. In a story researched and written with bold energy, she chronicles a young America brawling its way toward war. The personalities and conflicts of long-forgotten duels and fights leap to life, speaking to our own time with surprising relevance." --Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom , winner of the Lincoln Prize "Joanne Freeman of Yale calls attention to the scandalously frequent role of violence in the United States Congress across 28 tense years culminating in the Civil War. She describes many varieties of Congressional violence, including bullying, fighting in the halls of Congress, fisticuffs, guns, knives, duels and threats of duels. With painstaking research, she penetrates the conspiracy of silence imposed by sources frequently reluctant to publicize the embarrassing truth. The reader is surprised that such an important story should have waited so long to be told." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought "Congress in the 19th Century was a violent place to work. Legislators let out their sectional rage on each other, throwing punches and wielding weapons, in an institution that made our current politics look downright tame. In her riveting narrative, Joanne Freeman unpacks this volatile world to explain why the relations between elected officials became so brutal." --Julian Zelizer is a political historian at Princeton University and author of The Fierce Urgency of Now, "With narrative flair and scholarly gravitas, Joanne Freeman has given us a powerful and original account of a ferociously divided America. For readers who think things in the first decades of the 21st century have never been worse, Freeman's portrait of a tempestuous and tumultuous U.S. Congress offers a sobering and illuminating corrective. She shows us that the battles of the Civil War began not at Fort Sumter but in the U.S. Capitol, providing a new and compelling angle of vision on the origins of what Lincoln called our 'fiery trial.'" --Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The American Lion "In 1861, Americans grimly set to slaughtering the better part of a million of their fellow citizens. It was the most extraordinary break in the nation's history--and Joanne Freeman charts its approach an extraordinary new way. With insightful analysis and vivid detail, she explores the human relationships among congressmen before the Civil War, and finds a culture of astonishing violence. In fistfights, duels, and mass brawls, her innovative account detects steps toward disunion--and changes how we think about political history." --T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer's Trials "Joanne B. Freeman's erudition--and humor--are their own accomplishment, but it's remarkable a masterful work on the disruptive state of the Union arrives precisely at this time. There could be no better guide. I'm left wondering whether America is in a state of disrepair or still in the process of being born." --Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "Those who deplore the hyperpartisanship and decline of civility in contemporary American politics as unprecedented need to know more history. As Joanne Freeman makes clear in this compelling account, party strife, personal honor, and above all the slavery controversy brought unparalleled mayhem to the floors of Congress in the generation before the Civil War. Southern bullying and growing Northern resistance in the House and Senate foreshadowed the battlefields of 1861-1865." -- James McPherson, emeritus professor of history Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom "Joanne Freeman puts us on the tumultuous and touchy floor of Congress during its most contentious and momentous years. In a story researched and written with bold energy, she chronicles a young America brawling its way toward war. The personalities and conflicts of long-forgotten duels and fights leap to life, speaking to our own time with surprising relevance." --Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom , winner of the Lincoln Prize "Joanne Freeman of Yale calls attention to the scandalously frequent role of violence in the United States Congress across 28 tense years culminating in the Civil War. She describes many varieties of Congressional violence, including bullying, fighting in the halls of Congress, fisticuffs, guns, knives, duels and threats of duels. With painstaking research, she penetrates the conspiracy of silence imposed by sources frequently reluctant to publicize the embarrassing truth. The reader is surprised that such an important story should have waited so long to be told." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought "Congress in the 19th Century was a violent place to work. Legislators let out their sectional rage on each other, throwing punches and wielding weapons, in an institution that made our current politics look downright tame. In her riveting narrative, Joanne Freeman unpacks this volatile world to explain why the relations between elected officials became so brutal." --Julian Zelizer is a political historian at Princeton University and author of The Fierce Urgency of Now
Dewey Decimal
973.7
Table Of Content
Introductions: Tobacco-Stained Rugs and Benjamin Brown French 1. The Union Incarnate for Better and Worse: The United States Congress 2. The Mix of Men in Congress: Meeting Place of North and South 3. The Pull and Power of Violence: The Cilley-Graves Duel (1838) 4. Rules of Order and the Rule of Force: Dangerous Words and the Gag Rule Debate (1836-1844) 5. Fighting for the Union: The Compromise of 1850 and the Benton-Foote Scuffle (1850) 6. A Tale of Two Conspiracies: The Power of the Press and the Battle over Kansas (1854-1855) 7. Republicans Meet the Slave Power: Charles Sumner and Beyond (1855-1861) Epilogue: "I Witnessed It All"
Synopsis
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood , Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she 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 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. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril., "One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." --Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she 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 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. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
LC Classification Number
E338.F735 2018

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