John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

by Michael Stoneham (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $41.59

  Focuses on how John Brown - radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter - inspired America's most significant intellects, such as Whittier, Whitman, Melville, Howells, Emerson and Thoreau, to take a public stand against the inertia of moral compromise and social degeneracy, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.