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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
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About John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed
Review Winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book AwardWinner of the Kansas State Book Award.“Outstanding Books of the Year,” National Book Critics Circle. “Top Picks of the Year,” American Library Association. “Almost every page forces you to think hard, and in new ways, about American violence, American history, and what used to be called the American character.” --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“Great sensitivity, thorough research, and some marvelous narrative.” --David Blight, Washington Post Book World“One of the most compelling reads in antebellum history in the past several years” –New England Quarterly“This fine book should immediately become the standard biographical account of John Brown.” --Virginia Magazine of History and Biography“Absorbing, well written and beautifully documented.” --The Nation“A rich, nuanced and exhaustively researched life and times that positions the abolitionist firmly in the context of 19th-century American culture. . . . Impeccably written.” --San Francisco Chronicle“Vivid and convincing. . . . The best volume we now have on that incendiary figure…Nobody knows more about American society and culture in the first two-thirds of the 19th century than Reynolds.” --The Providence Journal"Splendidly written. . . . Reynolds is that rarest of authors who knows how to write well and who successfully presents a life-size image of Brown, warts and all.” --Denver Post“A deep, thought-provoking and entertaining biography. A rich, challenging social and intellectual history of America on the brink of tragedy.” --San Jose Mercury News Sun“Engrossing and timely, offering astute, thorough coverage of Americas premier iconoclast and the cultural stage upon which he played his role. “ --Kirkus“David S. Reynolds is a brilliant writer & historian of unusually broad scope. His works are completely accessible to readers outside of the academic world and its dense terminology. -- He is a great thinker. He is a profound scholar, combining history & literary criticism to examine our country on all levels, all the while writing fluidly so that his books are a joy to read. I like everything about Reynolds’ writing. Try one of his books and see what you think.” -Ann Rice, best-selling author of The Vampire Chronicles Product Description A cultural biography of John Brown, the controversial abolitionist who used violent tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history. Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who gripped slavery by the throat and triggered the Civil War. Reynolds demonstrates that Brown’s most violent acts—including his killing of proslavery settlers in Kansas and his historic raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia--were inspired by the slave revolts, guerilla warfare, and revolutionary Christianity of the day. He shows how Brown seized public attention, polarizing the nation and fueling the tensions that led to the Civil War. Reynolds recounts how Brown permeated American culture during the Civil War and beyond, and how he planted the seeds of the civil rights movement by making a pioneering demand for complete social and political equality for America’s ethnic minorities. From Kirkus Reviews “Engrossing and timely, offering astute, thorough coverage of America's premier iconoclast and the cultural stage upon which he played his role. Reynolds takes great pains to cast a fair light on an exceptionally controversial figure who used brutally violent tactics to bring about the end of slavery and the beginning of racial equality…. His analysis reflects a thorough understanding of the cultural environment of the time.Was it John Brown's audacity that put the spark to the tinderbox of slavery in mid-19th-century America? The prize-winning Reynolds (Walt Whitman, 2004, etc.; English and American Studies/CUNY) makes the case that the Civil War and emancipation might well have been slower in coming had Brown (1800-59) not inflamed paranoia in the So
