America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change
by
R. Blakeslee Gilpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change....