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Title: To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown by Stephen Oates ISBN: 0-87023-458-7 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The research is showing
Comment: In the preface of his book, author Oates states it is not his intention to determine the mental capabilities of his subject, abolitionist John Brown. But, he certainly paints a vivid enough picture so the reader can determine for himself if Brown is a crazy old coot, a cold blooded murderer, or a man on a might mission or a combination of all three. I had just read Cloudspliiter by Russell Banks (a fictionalized version of Brown's life-see my review) and it made me want to read a real biography of Brown. If anything, this book made me appreciate Banks' immagination even more. To Purge This Land with Blood is a very detailed account of Brown's life, maybe too detailed. Every character, no matter how inconsequential, is named. And this sea of names and places can be mindboggling. I found much of the book slow going and already knowing the outcome of Brown's life didn't compel me to move on quickly. But, after reading the book, I now believe I now know Brown. And isn't that the purpose of biography?
Rating: 4
Summary: You don't know John Brown
Comment: If you were, like I was, taught that John Brown was not much more than a well-meaning madman then you don't know the John Brown of history. Oates does a great job of dispelling that myth as well as presenting for the first time the full picture, thoroughly footnoted, of the man who may have sparked the Civil War. I have small gripes with some of the text, but none worth mentioning here. Read it and be impressed.
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Title: John Brown: The Legend Revisited by Merrill D. Peterson ISBN: 0813921325 Publisher: University Press of Virginia Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois, David R. Roediger ISBN: 0679783539 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired With John Brown by Edward Renehan ISBN: 1570031819 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: John Brown: The Making of a Martyr by Robert Penn Warren ISBN: 1879941198 Publisher: J. S. Sanders and Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $23.90 |
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Title: Cloudsplitter : A Novel by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060930861 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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